Medical & Dental

Surgeons from France’s Amiens-Picardie University have used 3D printing alongside a robot to successfully perform surgery on a boy’s spine. The boy, 6, had been suffering from severe progressive scoliosis coupled with infantile spinal amyotraphy, rendering him unable to even…

Researchers at Massey University have successfully made a new 3D-printer. This printer is special: it can 3D-print new corneas, which can then be used to transplant them into humans. The best part? The printer creates these new corneas from fish scales.…

At the University of Oxford, researchers have discovered a new way to 3D print living tissue with lab-grown cells. While there have been other successes of 3D printing tissue, such as in Sweden, this latest development in England could pave…

Zurich University of Applied Sciences is already well known on the 3D printing scene for their affiliation with Crytosurge as well as for breeding students that have created wonders such as the 6-axis 3D printer. Now, stepping back into the…

Today, there are many players in 3D printing – be they companies or associations – who have embarked on the creation of 3D-printed prostheses. Often associated with a physical disability, they replace a broken or underdeveloped part of our body.…

3D printing has touched a number of different industries, but one that has seen significant innovations over the last couple years has been none other than the medical field. Thanks to its ease of adoption, 3D printing is helping to…

Following a line of 3D printing innovations in medicine this year, such as 3D printed ovaries and skin, the latest medical innovation in 3D printing comes out of the K2M headquarters in Leesburg, Virginia with their announcement of their FDA…

At the University of Colorado in Boulder, a research center affiliated with NASA is using 3D bioprinting to develop more realistic cancer cell structures aboard the International Space Station. Under a research project called Magnetic 3D Cell Culturing, Their hopes…

3D bioprinting is a sector that has experienced the most changes and developments over the last couple of years, bringing us new headway with the creation of 3D printed human cartilage and Ovaries. Thanks to a boom in new discoveries, researchers have found…

The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have created a new ecological ink that is made from one of the main building blocks of plant material, cellulose. Thanks to their research, their ink may be the development…

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (Tu/e) in the Netherlands have used 3D printing technology to create a new innovation for the future of pediatric medicine. Their creation: a 3D printed biodegradable stent that grows within the pediatric patient. For…

Advances in 3D printing have hit across many sectors, transforming old ways of manufacturing into a new revolutionary one. One of these sectors to see major growth has been the 3D bioprinting sector, bringing us innovations that are helping to…