POSTS TAGGED AS 3-D printing

Printing Bone Implants of PEKK

3D printer of PEKK implants
Just as dentists can now 3-D print teeth in practices, independent surgical centers may soon begin [MORE]

3D Printed Sugar Tissue Platforms

3D printed bunny of sugar and red dye
One of the compelling uses of 3-D printing is fabricating tissue scaffolds for [MORE]

A Portable 3-D Printer for Wound Repair

Portable 3D skin printer
Using a “hand held skin printer that resembles a white-out tape dispenser—except that tape roll is replaced [MORE]

Customized Electronics Printed on the Hand

3D Printing on a real hand
“In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low-cost [MORE]

Printing Complex Tissues

 
3D Printer Creates Complex Biological Tissues
UCLA engineers have built a 3-D printer that does stereolithography using four different hydrogels. The [MORE]

3-D Soft Gel that Flexes like Human Tissue

Human-Like 3D Printed Smart Gel Walks Underwater
Living tissue is watery and soft, which is why engineers at Rutgers University believe [MORE]

3-D Jet Writing vs. 3-D Printing

3D Jet Writer
In order to make more authentically-sized tissues for researching anti-cancer therapeutics, Purdue University and University of Michigan researchers [MORE]

A Patch of Living Cells to Treat Blood Vessel Blockages

3D Patch for Resected Femoral Artery
Vascular grafts and stents work with arteries, but when a blockage plugs up smaller blood [MORE]

4-D Printing

4D Printing Low Temperature
Temperature is the fourth dimension in this piece. Rutgers University engineers “used a lithography-based technique that’s fast, [MORE]

3-D Printing with Genetically Engineered Bacteria

Digital Bacteria
“In the latest research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a team has developed a “living” 3-D printer bio-ink [MORE]

3-D “Jet”Printing with Living Cells

In Air Microfluidics 3D Printed Cells
Using familiar microfluidic devices, it might take seventeen hours to build up a cubic centimeter [MORE]

3-D Printed Pigmented Human Skin

3D Printing Skin Pigmentation
Bioengineers in Singapore have used 3-D printing, in a two-step process, to create living, artificial human skin [MORE]

Printing Customized Drugs

3D Printer to Make Personal Drugs
In case you’ve been wondering for a decade or two how it would be possible [MORE]

Pill Bottles That Can Order Their Own Refills

3D Printed WiFi
This piece isn’t really about a self-reordering pill bottle, but it could be, based on what University of [MORE]