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BIO INX and Rousselot Team up to Elevate Gelatin Bioinks for Bioprinting

BIO INX and Rousselot, which create 3D bioprinting materials and gelatin products, respectively, have teamed up to advance the production of 3D printed tissues. The duo will share their knowledge…

Bioprinting Companies Unite to Form HU3DINKS Consortium

A new international consortium called HU3DINKS is rallying behind a single mission: to develop advanced human tissue-based bioinks for 3D bioprinting. Supported by IraSME, a German network of funding programs;…

Belgian Consortium Tries to Make Better Electrical Motors With 3D Printing

A Belgian consortium consisting of Ghent University, KU Leuven, and research organization VITO has been working on the Additive Manufacturing for Electrical Machines (AM4EM) project. They want to make more…

Xpect-INX Will Develop Custom Bioinks for FELIXprinters’ BIOprinter

Biomaterial solutions provider Xpect-INX announced a collaboration with FELIXprinters, a Dutch manufacturer of innovative industrial 3D printers, to further expand the commercialization of its bioinks and consolidate research in the…

3D Printing News Briefs, November 21, 2020: Titomic, Etteplan, Concre3DLab, Interspectral, Nanofabrica, BCN3D & 3DGBIRE

In this week’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ve got some business news to cover first, then moving on to software, and finally to microscale 3D printing. Titomic has appointed an…

Focus on Improving PLA Mechanical Properties with Addition of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate)

In ‘Improving Mechanical Properties for Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Poly(Lactic Acid) by Annealing and blending with Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate),’ researchers from Ghent University in Belgium, and Sichuan University in China, explore new…

Solvay Announces Winners of 2019 Solvay AM Cup, First Place Winners Take $10K Home

It’s that time of year again, as Italy’s Solvay announces winners for what seems to have become a yearly tradition with their AM Cup. For 2019, students were at the…

3D Printing for a Better Preclinical Cancer Model

Peritoneal cancer is a rare form of cancer that can be especially deadly as it frequently isn’t diagnosed until it’s in an advanced stage. Even as treatments for the cancer…

Mega-Collaboration Between 15 Organizations Showcases the Potential of 3D Printing in Bicycle Form

If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s probably a duck, and if it looks like a bicycle, it must be a bicycle – right? Not…