3D Printing

The beauty company L'Oreal is tapping the expertise of 3-D printed human tissue pioneer Organovo. We asked an additive manufacturing expert about the potential behind 3-D printing skin.Chris NewmarkerDerek Mathers, business development manager at...

The beauty company is tapping the expertise of 3-D printed human tissue pioneer Organovo.The NovoGen MMX bioprinter from Organovo can produce living tissue samples. The company hopes it can make clinically viable partial organs in four to six...

Find out how New York researchers avoided spending hundreds of thousands of extra dollars on equipment.Daniel A. Grande, PhDChris NewmarkerThey 3-D printed windpipe or trachea segments that held up for four weeks in an incubator. And they did it...

While 3-D printing is catching on, medical device manufacturers should consider it carefully before jumping in head first.Bob MichaelsMaterialise's patient-specific cranial implant printed using porous titanium.Several speakers will take the...

Researchers at Louisiana Tech are using an inexpensive 3-D printer to make novel medical implants.Brian BuntzLouisiana Tech doctoral student Jeffery Weisman uses a MakerBot 3-D printer to create antibacterial beads.The MakerBot line of 3-D...

Developing customized materials and processes is key to extending 3-D printing to the manufacture of biocompatible nanotechnologies. Bob MichaelsExamples of 3-D printed drug-delivery devices.Medical device manufacturers have their sights on 3-D...

3-D printing could very well be the solution for in vitro diagnostic instruments companies in need of once-costly fluidic manifold prototypes.Heidi Lechner, IDEX Corp.While fluidic manifolds can help designers of in vitro diagnostic instruments...

Standardization of 3-D printing technology is still an ongoing process, but the development of technology-specific standards will facilitate its adoption in the medical device industryBob MichaelsAn orthopedic implant created using direct metal 3...