Medical & Dental

At ETH Zurich, researchers have developed 3D printed microrobots that are capable of delivering drug payloads via blood vessels in the human body. These microrobots were created with a 3D printing technique that involves interlocking multiple materials in a complex…

At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a team of researchers has developed a printing method called FRESH (Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogel), which is able to produce a human heart model to help surgeons in their operations. Using alginate…

TISSIUM was founded in 2013 to address one of the most persistent medical challenges since the inception of medical procedures: to reconstruct damaged tissue. The medtech company developed a proprietary technology, called biomorphic programmable polymers, to transform the way tissues…

Sandvik’s additive manufacturing and metal powder specialists are preparing for the future of medical implants. The high-tech and global engineering group is currently unlocking the potential of 3D printed titanium devices for the medical industry at their cutting-edge titanium powder…

In the medical sector, additive manufacturing technologies are slowly but surely having more impact on treatment outcomes for patients than they once were. For example, they can be used to create tailor-made medical devices thanks to enhanced design freedom during…

Bioprinting technologies have been advancing quite rapidly in recent years. In the medical sector, this method allows cells and biomaterials to be combined and deposited layer by layer, aiming to create biomedical models with the same properties as living tissues.…

Researchers at the University of Minnesota partnered with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center to 3D print unique fluid channels at the micron scale. The ability to additively manufacture such microfluidic channels can potentially automate the production…

What if you could 3D print your kidney? This is what CollPlant Biotechnologies and United Therapeutics Corporation are looking to do: they have just expanded their current partnership to produce and use a human collagen-based bioink to accelerate human kidney…

Research in the field of neural interfaces has existed since the 1970s, but innovation in the field has often been impeded by the high cost and long development time of producing prototypes. Additive manufacturing counteracts these limitations. As a result,…

According to the report by a consulting and market research firm, QY Research, the dental 3D printing industry is expected to reach $930 million by the end of 2025. In other words, the market is estimated to grow at an annual…

The dental sector has kept reinventing itself since the introduction of 3D printing technologies! And one company that caught our eye is LightForce Orthodontics. Based in Boston, it provides a digital platform to orthodontists to fully personalise 3D printed dental…

Some COVID-19 testing methods are not the most pleasant: virological testing (RT-PCR) can be very uncomfortable for many patients. A nasal swab is inserted quite deep into the nose to take a nasopharyngeal swab. A team of engineers from the School of Engineering…