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FDA Clears 3-D Printed Skull Implant
Feb 05, 2016
3-D printing technology is a perfect fit for creating head implants that are customized to a user. Recently, the company BioArchitects announced that it had won 510(k) clearance for its patient-specific titanium cranial/craniofacial plate device...
Laser Printing Images the Size of a Hair Follicle
Dec 18, 2015
A new laser printing technique now makes it possible to print high-resolution data and images with unprecedented quality at microscopic dimensions. Kristopher SturgisImage of the Mona Lisa, printed at just 50 micrometers long, roughly 10,000 times...
The 2015 Minnesota Medtech Week Innovation Prize Winner
Nov 04, 2015
An affordable professional-grade 3-D printer wowed the Innovation Prize tour group on Wednesday at Minnesota Medtech Week.Chris NewmarkerFrom left to right, the Form 2 3-D printer, Jory Block of Formlabs sales, JP Shipley of Formlabs marketing...
Tweaking 3-D Printers to Produce Live Heart Models
Oct 27, 2015
A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a technique that can transform a range of consumer-level 3-D printers into bioprinters -- producing 3-D models from soft materials that assemble into common tissue...
New Formlabs 3-D Printer Takes on Medical Prototyping
Oct 08, 2015
Formlabs officials think their new Form 2 stereolithographic 3-D printer could enable better medical device prototyping. Check out video of them demonstrating the printer at MD&M Philadelphia.Chris NewmarkerFormlabs--the four-year-old 3-D printer...
3-D Bioprinting and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
Sep 18, 2015
A professor at Drexel University is working to use 3-D printing to design scaffolding to harness the body's inflammatory response to promote healing.Kristopher SturgisKara Spiller, an assistant professor, school of biomedical engineering at Drexel...
Are We at the Peak of Medtech 3-D Printing Hype?
Aug 26, 2015
The medical device industry is at the peak of 3-D printing hype--but there are also many applications of the technology already in use, according to a new report.Nancy CrottiMedical technology is at the top of hype when it comes to 3-D printing...
How to Take 3-D Printing Beyond Prototyping
Aug 21, 2015
Here are three important things that medical device makers should consider as they examine the pros and cons of 3-D printing, courtesy of Andreas Pfahnl of Devicix.Andreas PfahnlAndreas Pfahnl, ScD, DevicixManufacturing a medical device requires...
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