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A Better Bioprinter
Sep 14, 2016
    Researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Johns Hopkins University are using a bioprinter that preserves cells better than the traditional scaffold 3-D printing technique, according to a reportin TechRepublic...
4-D Printing Gets More Sophisticated
Sep 14, 2016
    Harvard University researchers have come closer to unleashing the potential of 4-D printing, which involves materials that transform and assemble themselves. (Imagine an implantable medical device that assembles and deploys itself inside the...
Custom-Built 3-D Printers Enabling Innovation
Sep 14, 2016
    3-D printing breakthroughs--such as the creation of implantable bioprinted tissues--are becoming increasingly possible because researchers are creating custom 3-D printers that are far more complex than what is presently commercially available...
Printing Replacement Tissue for People
Sep 14, 2016
    Regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced in February that they have created a custom-designed 3-D printer able to bioprint sophisticated ear, bone, and muscle structures.The tissue structures printed at...
7 Radically New 3-D Printing Innovations
Sep 14, 2016
    It is so much more than a prototyping tool these days. Here are seven examples of 3-D printing technology that could revolutionize the medical device industry.Chris Newmarker3-D printing is already used for prototyping, surgical models, and...
How 3-D Bioprinting Is Becoming a Reality
Sep 07, 2016
Researchers at four universities have been overcoming major obstacles in the field.Nancy CrottiThe Regenova 3-D bioprinter loads groups of cells called spheroids into fine needle arrays. (Image courtesy of Cyfuse)FDA approval of 3-D-printed body...
These 3-D Printed Polymers Have Shape-Memory Abilities
Aug 31, 2016
MIT engineers have developed three-dimensional structures that can "remember" their original shapes, even after being stretched, bent, and twisted at extreme angles.Kristopher SturgisResearchers at MIT have created 3-D printed multimaterial...
1. 3-D Printing Comes of Age
Aug 30, 2016
    This year could truly be remembered as the one in which 3-D printing came of age in the medical device industry.Additive manufacturing is already playing an important role when it comes to prototyping and providing anatomical models of patient...
Naming the Latest 3-D Printing Technology
Aug 24, 2016
Qmed readers suggest such names as "Multi" 3-D Printing and Exponential 3D Printing. Chris Newmarker Researchers led by Michael McAlpine at the University of Minnesota have custom-built 3-D printers that are able to create at micron-level details...
These 3-D Printers Are Cool: So What to Call Them?
Aug 22, 2016
"Multi-material, multiscale" 3-D printing doesn't roll off the tongue. Help us pick a better name for the latest custom-built 3-D printers out of universities. Chris NewmarkerMcAlpine holds an LED 3-D printed onto curved glass with a custom-built...
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