3d print transplants
3D Printed Tools Used in First Double Hand & Face Transplant
3D technologies by Belgian company Materialise (MTLS) have long been used for applications in the healthcare field, from splints and surgical guides to implants, and this summer it received important…
3D Printed Esophagus Successfully Transplanted Into Rats
In the race to 3D print and transplant seemingly every part of the human body, the esophagus has been a particular challenge for scientists and doctors. But a team of…
3D Printing News Briefs: November 3, 2018
In this month’s first edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting again with news about formnext, before moving on to other business news, a medical story, and a case…
4D Printing Technique Could Be Used to Develop 3D Printed Human Organs for Transplant Patients
Often, when someone receives a life-saving organ transplant, this unfortunately means that another person recently lost their own life to provide it. But there are many researchers currently working to…
Biomedical Research Team in Spain Working on 3D Printed Corneas to Make Up for Lack of Donors
While there have been some companies researching how to 3D print viable human corneas, it’s not something we hear about often…as least not as much as we hear about other…
3D Printed Models Helped Surgeons Prepare for World’s First Pediatric Bilateral Hand Transplant
As many 8-year-old boys do, Zion Harvey wanted to swing on the monkey bars and to pick up his little sister and swing her around as they played. Zion, however,…
3D Printed Drug Delivery System Shows Promise in Countering Transplant Rejection
There has been rapid progression seen in the technology used to 3D print live human cells. Over the last four to five years alone we have seen the technology go from only…
