3D Printing

Don't write off 3-D printing as an overhyped technology just yet. Here are three 3-D printing applications that could actually reshape medical device manufacturing. Brian Buntz and Chris NewmarkerA company founded by UNC-Chapel Hill professors...

Scientists at Wake Forest have created individual cardiac cells from stem cells that can be seen beating in a video. Qmed StaffApparently not content with merely printing skin, ears, bone, and muscles for use in lab animals, researchers at Wake...

In this Q&A, a 3-D printing expert dishes advice on how to keep 3-D printing projects on track and channels advice from the iconic film The Princess Bride.Brian BuntzRon Belknap is president and CEO of ProtoCAM3-D printing, along with the Internet...

A growing number of device firms are using 3-D printing to produce injection molds. Brian BuntzNadav SellaAbout five years ago, Nadav Sella, now director, manufacturing tools at Stratasys, spotted a company using 3-D printing to make injection...

The international volunteer group E-Nable has become a catalyst when it comes to children receiving 3-D printed "robohands" and other prosthetics.Chris NewmarkerThey aren't a company. They don't sell devices. But what the nonprofit volunteer...

A company started by UNC-Chapel Hill professors touts its new Terminator 2-inspired CLIP technology that promises printing speeds 25 to 100 times faster than conventional 3-D printers.Chris NewmarkerCLIP technology in action. (Image courtesy of...

Find out about a California couple who used a 3-D printed model to convince surgeons to perform an alternative to a risky brain surgery. Nancy CrottiAnterior skull section with skull based tumor (Courtesy of slo 3D creators--Michael Balzer)--on...

Additive manufacturing offers myriad benefits for the medical device industry. But there are still certain risks and unknowns associated with the burgeoning technology. 

3-D printing could be used to fine-tune the delivery of medicine according to the needs of patients undergoing interventional radiology procedures.Kristopher Sturgis3-D printing could play an active role in crafting devices such as catheters...