Medical & Dental

In 2020, 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer globally. Breast cancer is the most common cancer across the world, and with breast cancer survival rates at 90%, the medical industry has ramped up efforts to enhance breast reconstruction…

Those who have been following our news for a while will certainly be familiar with the startup Kumovis. Because in 2018, only one year after its founding, Kumovis was already among the winners of the Formnext Startup Challenge. A year…

The first and second place winners in NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge have created 3D printed lab-grown human liver tissues. The two teams of scientists, both from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina were able…

In the orthopedic sector and more broadly in medicine, additive manufacturing has become an essential technology. Whether for the production of prostheses, orthoses or implants, 3D printing allows medical devices to be manufactured in a short period of time and…

Readily3D is a young Swiss startup that has developed a volumetric 3D printing method to create complex organic shapes in just a few seconds. The company used tomography to design its first 3D printer, which is capable of solidifying an…

At the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), a team of researchers, along with doctors from St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, have developed an innovative method for bioprinting medical implants. Instead of designing scaffolds on which cells will multiply,…

A few months ago we introduced you to Expert3D, a postgraduate course aimed at doctors, healthcare professionals, engineers and technicians in the healthcare sector. Offered by the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona (SJD) and other European medical centers, and…

Desktop Health, Desktop Metal’s new healthcare business, announced last week that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its proprietary resin designed for use in 3D printed dental prosthetics. Though the 3D printing dental…

It has been clear for a while that 3D printing has a number of benefits for the medical sector. From personalized protheses to bioprinting organs, already AM is being used in medicine in revolutionary ways. However, researchers from the University…

3D Systems has just announced their latest enhancement to their VSP surgical planning portfolio. The all new VSP Hybrid Guides will deliver a breakthrough patient-specific, occlusal-based solution for maxillofacial surgeries. By combining nylon and titanium guides the new enhancement will…

Testing for COVID-19 with a coffee capsule and a pan? This is the original idea of a scientist from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. Hoping to reduce the cost of COVID-19 detection tests currently offered on the market,…

MIT spinout, OPT Industries has used novel additive manufacturing systems to develop intricately designed products, including a novel nasal swabs to be used for Covid-19 testing. Founder, Jifei Ou, previously spent seven years spent researching 3D systems in MIT’s Media…