A start-up which brings exercise bike classes into the users’ own home has adopted MakerBot 3D printing technology to step up production and fend off competitors. Peloton used a Replicator 3D printer to create prototypes for 20 different components.
3D printing may be at the heart of a new cost-effective method for lesser developed countries to test for illnesses such as malaria. Stanford University scientists have produced centrifuges from paper and string, as well as 3D-printed plastic.
Cellink has launched the BIO X printer to its range of bioprinters, which provides tissue engineers with both pneumatic and syringe extrusion technologies in one system.
A General Electric software engineer is aiming to make a global impact with 3D-printed custom prosthetic hands after fitting his first patient at the end of 2016. Lyman Connor is now looking to upscale production and make a worldwide impact.
Researchers from Oxford University have created interactive 3D models of human joints showing how common medical complaints have arisen and how skeletons may evolve in the future. The 3D models have been created by Oxford University Researchers.
Synthetically grown 3D-printed bone will soon be a reality for survivors of landmine accidents after a £2.8 million regenerative medicine project at the University of Glasgow was launched. The project will be funded by Sir Bobby Charlton's charity.
A group of Chinese medical researchers have used 3D printing to create natural blood vessels. Sichuan Revotek, developers of the world’s first bio-printer in 2015, have used the technology to find potential solutions for organ failure sufferers.
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.
