3D Printing

Princeton University researchers have succeeded in embedding LEDs on a plastic contact lens, opening the door to the use of 3-D printing to produce a range of electronic components, including semiconductors.Although the lure of using 3-D printing...

Stents that keep patients' airways open haven't changed much in the past 20 years, according to George Cheng, MD, a pulmonary and critical care fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.Traditional tracheal stents are made of metal...

3-D printers continue to evolve and shape the landscape of the medtech industry, as researchers look for new ways to apply the transformative technology to create medical devices and materials. Recently, researchers began using computed tomography...

The arrival of 4-D printing--what Skylar Tibbits at MIT calls "programmable materials that build themselves"--could be sooner than one might think, medtech industry analysts tell European Medical Device Technology. Related Slideshow: Coolest...

The potential applications of 3-D printing are vast, and include everything from making synthetic tissue and organs to custom medical devices--but such innovations could be years if not decades away.For now, medtech industry insiders need to...

Despite the promise of 3-D printing, it has yet to replace injection molding systems, which have historically been substantially less expensive and faster than 3-D printing for most applications.But that could soon change, however.The capabilities...

3-D printing is the hottest new technology on the block. But for medical devices applications, the lack of suitable 3-D printable materials is inhibiting the widespread adoption of this technology. A key obstacle impeding the introduction of new 3...

3-D printing is the buzzword of the hour. But many doctors, educators, and scientists cannot create their own CAD models to get the 3-D ball rolling. To address this need, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--together with the National...

Progress has been slow in the realm of 3-D printing living tissue and organs. An area of particular frustration has been that of blood vessel development. But the situation is changing, thanks to a team of engineers who recently made significant...