3d printing medicine
New 3D Printing Industries: Connected Healthcare Devices
The confluence of data, healthcare, software, private enterprise, and personalized healthcare devices will be a powerful one. Your Fitbit, smartphone or Apple Watch, will be interconnected with your fitness apps,…
Charles River Associates International on Bioprinting
Charles River Associates International is a company that advises governments, law firms, and companies on weighty strategic matters and issues related to specific expertise that the company has. CRA may…
3D Printing Pioneer Interview With Lars Brouwers on 3D Printing for Complex Fractures and Helping in Sierra Leone
Lars Brouwers is a surgeon in training and a researcher at the Radboudumc and the Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital. He investigates the value of 3D printing and Virtual Reality in the treatment…
3D Printing News Briefs: March 9, 2018
We’re starting with a little business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs – while the funding has fallen through for the Idea-2-Product 3D printing center in Colorado, efforts are…
3D Printing Customized Printlets Creates Personal Pharmaceutical Solutions — A Few Questions For: FabRx
Some medications don’t require a spoonful of sugar to go down easier — just 3D printing them into customized shapes and formulations might be just what the doctor (very literally)…
Study Shows High Accuracy of Medicinal 3D Printing
A study led by University of Cambridge Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Daniel Markl and Chemical Engineering professor Dr. Axel Zeitler demonstrated the viability of 3D printing technology in structuring and printing active…
Bioactive 3D Printing for Effective 3D Printed Drug Therapy, LSU Researchers Awarded $40K for New Medical Center
At my fourth grade picnic, I ran up the steps of a gazebo and fell on my knee onto the brick steps. The cut was so deep it severed nerves,…
Chinese Doctors First to Use 3D Printing to Create Template for Radioactive Seed Implantation Cancer Surgery
We have seen an ever-increasing use of 3D printing technology within the medical field. Just yesterday, we reported on a woman who had a large tumor removed from her brain,…
Materialise and Belgium Specialist Return Full Functionality to Boy’s Arm Using 3D Printed Implants
A young boy in Belgium has the use of his forearm back thanks to the recent alliance between hand-specialist Dr. Frederik Verstreken, and Materialise, a corporate pioneer in the medical applications…
MakerBot 3D Printers Used to Create Drug Emitting Implants for Cancer Treatment and Infection
The number of medical applications for 3D printing seems to expand on a daily basis. We have seen all sorts of amazing uses for the technology, from prosthetics, to implants,…
French Doctor Implants 3D-Printed Spine Cage to Perform Spinal Fusion Surgery
A surgeon in Lyon, France performed the world’s first spinal-fusion surgery recently. Dr. Vincent Fiere performed the surgery at the Hospital Jean Mermoz using customized, 3D-printed spine cages. Fiere performed…
UConn Students 3D Print Two Different Artificial Kidneys
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the possibility of 3D bioprinting organs, such as livers, kidneys and hearts. In fact, many experts within the medical field expect 3D printing…
