Medical & Dental

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through an agreement with the Consumer Products Safety Commission has been investigating whether increased use of 3D printers could lead to unintended adverse impacts to human health. It’s true that 3D printers release…

The FDA has just approved custom-made stents designed by Dr. Tom Gildea, a physician at the Cleveland Clinic. These devices, customized to the patient’s anatomy, are placed in an artery to facilitate breathing by keeping the airway open. The stents,…

Denise Vicentin, 53 was diagnosed with a facial tumor 30 years ago. After having it removed twice, it came back 20 years later in a malignant form. Luckily, she was able to benefit from research conducted by scientists at Paulista…

In May 2017, we told you about researchers from Northwestern University’s mission to provide women with fertility issues a viable solution. Back then, they succeeded in implanting a bioprinted ovary in a sterile mouse, an interesting and promising first step.…

FossiLabs, based in the US, is a startup focused on the development of FDM 3D printers to produce PEEK medical implant devices. As you may have noticed, high-performance thermoplastics such as PEEK have gained a lot of attention in the…

During Formnext 2019, the 3D printer manufacturer WASP launched a new solution that prints medical-grade PEEK from pellets. WASP has gained recognition in the industry for its 3D printers dedicated to the construction sector – today it is bringing its…

Orthoses are medical devices that are made to stabilise, relieve, immobilise, guide or correct a part of the body. Since each patient is different, an efficient orthotic device should be perfectly adapted to the wearer’s body and needs, which in…

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and Yale Medical School have bioprinted vascularized skin tissues, which were successfully tested on a mouse. Apparently, the skin managed to connect to the animal’s blood vessels. For the medical sector, this…

Last June, Aleph Objects announced its collaboration with FluidForm, the two companies were setting out to create a new bioprinting hardware with the long-term goal of creating real functional tissues. Aleph Objects, the manufacturer of LulzBot 3D printers decided to…

In the medical sector, professionals have trained on cadavres, animals, and traditional or virtual models to prepare for surgery, all of which have significant limitations. Additive manufacturing has been changing the way medical professionals prepare for an important operation, avoiding…

BIOLIFE4D, one of the pioneers in the bioprinting field, has been able to bioprint a miniature human heart – making it the first U.S. company to successfully achieve this. The company’s mission is to create a fully functioning human heart…

At Harvard, a group of researchers are developing a solution that will bioprint blood vessels on living tissues. Their paper ‘Biomanufacturing of organ-specific tissues with high cellular density and embedded vascular channels’ published in Science Advances, highlights a new technique…