POSTS TAGGED AS 3-D printing

3-D Printed Artificial Heart

3D-printed artificial heart beats just like the real thing
This piece is about a soft artificial heart that mimics a normal [MORE]

Highly Accurate 3-D Printed Biopsy Robot

Stormram 4, a 3-D printed biopsy robo
Because the “Stormram 4,” a 3-D printed biopsy robot, is made of plastic, it [MORE]

3-D Printed Heart Valves

Custom sizer in 3D printed heart valve
A collaboration between bioengineers at Harvard, the University of Washington and Max Planck Institute [MORE]

Wirelessly Controlled “pill”

MIT Wireless pill
For the past two years, researchers at MIT have been improving the design and capabilities of an ingestible [MORE]

Monitoring without Electronics

3D Assistive technology
Paul Allen is gone, but his School of Electrical and Computer Engineering lives on at the University of [MORE]

3-D Printed Ligaments and Tendons

Professor Bowles with 3D printer for ligaments and tendons
Biomedical engineers at the University of Utah have shown how to use [MORE]

Intermountain’s Transformation Center: Printing Transplantable Organs?

 
Kem C Gardner Transformation Center
Intermountain Health (Salt Lake City) already has a good reputation for innovation, but taking that further, [MORE]

Patient-Specific Heart Mapping Sensors

Mapping catheter for identifying source of AF
To treat atrial fibrillation, interventional cardiologists need to know where aberrant electrical signals are [MORE]

Regenerating the Body’s Blood Vessels and Ducts

3D printed blood vessels
Regenerating blood vessels from stem cells implanted on an artificial scaffold has been demonstrated, but this piece, [MORE]

Prototype for 3-D Printed Bionic Eye

Prototype for bionic eye
Following past success with bionic skin and a bionic ear, engineers at the University of Minnesota have [MORE]

Remote Controlled Surgical Devices in the Planning

Magnetic activators
MIT researchers have created a magnetic ink and used it to 3-D print a surgical tool prototype that can [MORE]

3-D Printed Implantable Device for Spinal Cord Injury

3D printed stem cells
The video with this piece shows how University of Minnesota researchers were able to 3-D print layers [MORE]

How to Make Organoids

How to make a brain organoid
Betty Crocker couldn’t have been clearer: “To grow brain organoids, researchers have traditionally cultured human [MORE]

Printing Transplantable Lungs

3D printed airway
This piece is about a work in progress, with likely a long way to go.  United Therapeutics (Manchester, [MORE]