3D Printing Helps Surgeons to Operate Faster
3D printing can help surgeons to be able to operate faster and provide more detailed work. Long surgeries often come along with two problems: high costs and risk to the patient. Because surgery can...
View ArticleProfessor Worked On Technique to Print Out Body Parts
3D printing organs and bones: myth or the new reality? Kevin Shakeshaff, who is a professor of pharmacy at the University of Nottingham in England thinks it’s the future. He has been working on a...
View Article3D Printing Technique Makes Prosthetic Hands Affordable
During last weekends Maker Faire Tokyo a new 3D printed artificial hand was presented, called Handie. While regular prosthetic hands can easily cost more than 10.000 dollars, Handie will only cost...
View ArticleBiologist Creates 3D Printed Animal Skulls
Do you remember this group called Band of Skulls? It’s probably the favorite band of medical doctor and biologist Scott Camazine, because he’s started a giant project about sculptures of animal skulls,...
View Article3D Printed Liver Can Survive For 40 Days
3D printing organs: it’s what the world is waiting for. A research company from San Diego called Organovo has announced it has created slices of functioning, long-lasting human liver using a 3D...
View ArticleSurgeons Use 3D Printing to Rebuild Patient’s Face
Surgeons from Morriston Hospital in Swansea, England, are using 3D printing in order to rebuild the face of a patient, who had a terrible motorbike accident. The doctors use the technique of 3D...
View ArticleSix-Year-Old Gets a New 3D Printed Nose
A six-year-old boy from Mongolia called Nerja has been given an artificial nose. The boy was born without one, which is a very rare thing to happen. Most children who are born without a nose cannot...
View ArticleReality: 3D Printing 150 Prosthetic Eyes in Just One Hour
Today, creating a prosthetic eye is a time-consuming activity. Only one eye at a time can be made and it often takes weeks before patients can receive them. With the possibilities of 3D printing, this...
View ArticleEuroMold 2013 Interview: Prodways
One of the big companies at EuroMold 2013 is Groupe Gorgé. Right now this French engineering business is presenting its first “Prodways” 3D printers. CEO Raphaël Gorgé acquired 88 percent of 3D printer...
View ArticleDutch Company Produces World’s First-Ever 3D Printed Glasses
recently there have been a lot of of articles about the question whether 3D printing will be able conquer the world of opticals. What writers don’t know is that it’s already happening: a Dutch company,...
View Article3D Printing Eye Cells: Can We Cure Blindness?
Researchers at The University of Cambridge claim 3D printed eye cells could “aid in the cure of blindness”. They have succeeded in printing adult nerve cells for the first time using an inkjet printer...
View ArticleScientists Create 3D Printed Shoes For Disabled Horse
Holly, a 10-year-old mare has been suffering for more than three years from a chonic foot disease which makes walking a very painful activity. Therefore, scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and...
View Article3D Printed Self-Repairing Running Shoes Made of Regenerating Cells
Have you ever heard about self-repairing running shoes? We didn’t, until today. Shamees Aden, who is a London designer and researcher has created a prototype for running shoes that can actually repair...
View ArticleFirst Usable 3D Printed Liver Expected by 2014
Here’s the first prediction about 3D printing for 2014: the very first working 3D printed liver is expected by the end of the upcoming year. San Diego based firm Organovo told Computerworld that its...
View ArticleLow-Cost 3D Printed Prosthetics Can Help Thousands of Sudan War Victims
3D printing can bring a lot of goodness into the world. A perfect example to illustrate such goodness is a Sudan project called Project Daniel. This thing was named after a boy who lost both his hands...
View Article3D Printing Project Provides Prosthetics For Ugandan People
The University of Toronto has partnered up with a hospital from Uganda and an NGO to 3D print prosthetics in order to speed up the process of helping Ugandan people who’ve lost a limb. 3D printing...
View ArticleReality: 3D Printing 150 Prosthetic Eyes in Just One Hour
Today, creating a prosthetic eye is a time-consuming activity. Only one eye at a time can be made and it often takes weeks before patients can receive them. With the possibilities of 3D printing, this...
View ArticleEuroMold 2013 Interview: Prodways
One of the big companies at EuroMold 2013 is Groupe Gorgé. Right now this French engineering business is presenting its first “Prodways” 3D printers. CEO Raphaël Gorgé acquired 88 percent of 3D printer...
View ArticleDutch Company Produces World’s First-Ever 3D Printed Glasses
recently there have been a lot of of articles about the question whether 3D printing will be able conquer the world of opticals. What writers don’t know is that it’s already happening: a Dutch company,...
View Article3D Printing Eye Cells: Can We Cure Blindness?
Researchers at The University of Cambridge claim 3D printed eye cells could “aid in the cure of blindness”. They have succeeded in printing adult nerve cells for the first time using an inkjet printer...
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