POSTS TAGGED AS 3-D printing

Making Movies of Cells with a Smartphone

Movies that show cells responding to drugs or toxins can be highly useful to researchers, but this often requires expensive [MORE]

3-D Printed Meniscus

Aspect’s 3-D Bioprinting Platform
With someone in the US undergoing knee replacement surgery every 45 seconds, its little wonder that much [MORE]

Innovations in 3-D Printing

3D Printing Wake Forest Ear
Over the past year, the six of the seven innovations in 3-D printing and 3-D printers [MORE]

3-D Printing: The Nephron’s Proximal Tube

Kidney Nephron
With some 93,000 people now waiting—in some cases up to ten years—for a live kidney transplant, the need for [MORE]

Personalized Medical Devices—3-D Printed Biodegradable Stents

3D Printing Customized Stents
Today’s arterial stents are made from either metal or plastic. They come in different sizes, and the [MORE]

Bone Ink for 3-D Printers

Ramille Shah Created Hyper-Elastic 3D Printed Bone
In 3-D bioprinting, it’s more a matter of the ink than of the printer [MORE]

Printing Your Own Lab Equipment

This idea is reasonably close to one that sparked the Industrial Revolution: interchangeable parts. Engineers at the University of California-Riverside [MORE]

Drug Delivery via Micro-Rockets

There is a lot of technology in this title: “Reactive Inkjet Printing of Biocompatible Enzyme Powered Silk Micro-Rockets.” What it [MORE]

Camera Inside a Syringe

Imaging System Fits Inside a Syringe Needle
For the first time, physicists have used 3-D printing to make a complex lens [MORE]

Improving Bio-Ink for Better 3-D Printing

3-D Bioprinting University of Bristol
Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have been able to 3-D print a full-size tracheal [MORE]

3-D Bioprinted Placenta for Research on Pre-Eclampsia

Placenta Anatomy
Pre-eclampsia, also known as pregnancy- induced hypertension, can be life threatening to the mother and its only known treatment [MORE]

Terahertz Radiation through a 3-D Printed Lens for Medical Imaging

Terahertz Lens
Terahertz radiation exists in the EM spectrum between microwave and infrared. It has several advantages in imaging such as [MORE]

3-D Printing Teeth, Gum and Bone

Prof. Ivanovski 3d Print Dentistry
Printed teeth have been done before, as has a printed mandible, but researchers at Griffith University’s [MORE]

3-D Printing of Thick Vascularized Tissue

Tissue Engineering
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have used 3-D bioprinting to create “thick vascularized tissue constructs composed of human stem [MORE]