A UB team of biomedical engineers, neurosurgeons and cardiovascular interventionalists has developed a way to generate 3D prints of the human vascular system, giving surgeons pre-surgical, hands-on ...

3D printing is used to create real-life 3D objects from a digital model, facilitating the realization of ideas and concepts with high accuracy. Various 3D printing technologies exist, including ...

Yonghui Ding stands looking into a computer monitor n a cramped corner of an engineering lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. He’s jostling the controls of an Xbox controller, but the ...

Doctors have made an astounding breakthrough. According to a new paper published in Science, a group of doctors has managed to create a special ink capable of 3D printing within the human body. The ...

Most methods for manufacturing 3D printer ink involve the addition of various materials to provide strength and structure to the ink. According to new research from Nanyang Technological University, ...

A new report from Smithers Pira, “The Future of Functional and Industrial Print to 2020,” examines the rapidly emerging use of printing-for-profit in novel areas outside the traditional graphics and ...

A new type of photoinitiator for 3-D printing in water could further the development of biomedical accessories, bring advances in traditional industries such as plastics, and offer an environmentally ...

(Nanowerk News) Forget glue, screws, heat or other traditional bonding methods. A Cornell University-led collaboration has developed a 3D printing technique that creates cellular metallic materials by ...

3D printing technology has the potential to revolutionize the field of biomedicine by providing new ways to meticulously fabricate complex structures like functional human tissues and organs as well ...

Although 4D printing is considered very promising for various biomedical applications – such as tissue scaffolds, neural scaffolds, grafts and stents, cardiac patches and valves, even bionic ...

Shapeshifting materials produced at Rice University with a 3D printer morph from their original form to an alternate through changes in temperature, electric current or stress. This example shows how ...