Australian sleep apnoea specialist, Oventus Medical opens a new 3D printing facility to help advance its research into solutions for snoring. Oventus will continue to work on its O2Vent device, which optimises the intake of air and reduces snoring.
Parents-to-be will soon be able to have a greater understanding of what is happening to their unborn child thanks to 3D foetal models created from MRI scans. The 3D-printed models could be used to visualise the internal organs of a foetus.
Celprogen Inc, a leader in the Stem Cell Research and Therapeutics industry since 2002, have successfully finished printing a 3D pancreas model from flexible Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) material scaffold.
At AMUG 2016, Deputy Group Editor, Laura Griffiths saw a talk by Dr. Perry E. Jones, DDS, MAGD, IADFE, on dentistry that she was so enamoured with, she asked him to write a column.
Physicians at the University of Rochester Medical Centre (URMC) have used 3D printers to develop fabricated artificial organs that can even physically bleed when cut. These 3D models are said to be incredibly realistic and mimic the real thing.
Dutch tech giants, Philips have introduced their new IntelliSpace Portal 9.0 analysis platform, which features enhanced 3D printing options, at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting.
Stratasys and Vital Images, a Minneapolis-based enterprise medical imaging and informatics company, are collaboratively exhibiting 3D printing and the automated segmentation of medical images at the Radiological Society of North America 2016.
A biofabrication institute, which will image, model and manufacture 3D-printed tissues, will open in Brisbane in 2017. The institute will allow specialists to collaborate and find how 3D tissues can improve patients' quality of life.
A teenage boy from the UAE was awarded for his mind-controlled, 3D-printed bionic arm at the region’s first Gulf 3D Printing Olympiad. The 14-year-old's creation is a low-cost, functional bionic forearm suitable for those with disabled hands.
Pakistan’s first biomedical 3D printing company, Bioniks, has produced the country’s first ever 3D-printed prosthetic arm for a five-year-old boy. The prosthetic has helped Mir Bayyan to play like an able-bodied child.
Northeastern University’s Dept of Bioengineering are working on the advancement of 3D bioprinting which may revolutionise vascular disease treatment. Specifically, Associate Professor Guohao Dai is 3D bioprinting live tissue with vascular perfusion.
We asked Sisma's GM, Vittorio Gaudino to take us on a tour of the Italian company's laser-based systems aimed at jewellery, dental and industrial manufacturing applications.
