hydrogel 3d printing
MaskiD: U.S. Beta Launch of Neutrogena’s 3D Printed Face Mask
Neutrogena has launched a beta version of its highly-anticipated, custom 3D printed sheet mask in the United States. Every week, 100 skincare fans will get a chance to try the…
Research in China Yields New DLP 3D Printed Microneedles
Chinese researchers are finding better ways to create microneedles, helping patients avoid some of the pain and discomfort offered by more conventional injection devices. Novel, 3D printed hydrogel microneedles help…
Xi’an Jiaotong University: Chinese Researchers Create New Hydrogel 3D Printing System
In the recently published ‘Hydrogel 3D printing with the capacitor edge effect,’ authors Jikun Wang, Tongqing Lu, Meng Yang, Danqi Sun, Yukun Xia and Tiejun Wang further explore the use…
Researchers Develop Tough Hydrogels for 3D Printing Applications in Repairing Load-Bearing Soft Tissues
The water-swollen polymer networks we know as hydrogels have many applications in the biomedical industry, but in order to use them to repair and regenerate load-bearing soft tissues, such as cartilage, blood…
Hebrew University and Yissum Developing Novel Technology Platform for 3D Printing Personalized Medicine
Yissum, which is the Hebrew University of Jerusalem‘s technology transfer company and handles the patenting and commercialization of any inventions produced there, has had a hand in many unique 3D printing…
Collaborative Research Team Develops Bioresin for DLP 3D Printing for Synthesizing Tissue
In typical biofabrication and 3D bioprinting methods, layers of cell-laden hydrogel structures called bioinks are extruded to build functioning biological tissues. But using bioresins laden with cells, instead of bioinks, for lithography bioprinting…
Researchers Develop 3D Printed Smart Hydrogel That Can Walk Underwater and Pick Up Objects
Pairing 3D printing with smart technology has led to some amazing innovations, such as metal parts that can track the performance of machines, windows that can keep your car cool…
New Elastic Biodegradable Hydrogel Could Help 3D Print Human Soft Tissue in the Future
Last year, Dr. Yi Hong, a Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), received an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop materials for making…
Cryogenics and 3D Printing Used to Create Super-Soft Replicas of Biological Structures for Tissue Regeneration
Researchers with Imperial College London (ICL) have developed a new 3D printing technique for creating replicas of biological structures, which could potentially be used for tissue regeneration, and even replica…
Penn State Uses 3D Near-Field Electrospinning Method to Create Scaffolds for Living Tissue
As of right now, almost every complex transplant tissue, whether it’s a tendon or a kidney or a heart, comes from donors who are living or dead. A research team…
Open Source Biolab Uses 3D Bioprinting Platform to Fabricate Complex Earlobe Vasculature
3D printing technology has made a big impact in the medical field, in more ways than one, including bioprinting and biofabrication. The Institute for Development of Advanced Applied Systems, or Institute IRNAS,…
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…
3D Printing Technology and Engineering Used to Regenerate Heart Muscle Tissue
In the past, the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) has used 3D printing technology to help with brain surgery, but now researchers from the Canadian university are focusing on matters of…
Bioprinting Organs: Researchers Create Less Expensive Bioink Based in 3D Printed Gelatin Hydrogels
3D printed hydrogels have had many different applications in the medical field, from delivering precise doses of medicine and making custom meniscus implants to engineering tissue so that in the…
Skin Inspires Creation of 3D Printable, Conductive Self-Healing Hydrogel
The ability to heal was once thought to be relegated to living things only, but that’s not the case anymore, thanks to technology. A great deal of work has been…
Duke University Researchers Develop 3D Printable Hydrogel Material for Custom Menisci Implants
Except when they made me in gym class, I didn’t play sports in high school or college (does badminton class count?). But I had friends who were far more athletically…
3D Printed Knee Cartilage: Improvement on Meniscectomy Surgeries to be Offered Soon
A technology that was once not accessible to the public, 3D printing is now highly visible. You’ll see plug-and-play 3D printers available at great prices in the most common of physical…
A 4D Printed Valve That Actuates According to Water Temperature
It may seem a touch misleading in name, but scientists at the University of Wollongong say they’re creating what they call 4D printing. The fourth dimension they refer to is…
