I do not personally know any amputee but I once interviewed Alex Zanardi, the famous race driver who lost both his legs in an accident, and yet went back to racing after having won a gold medal at the 2012 Paralympics. From speaking with him I understood that the biggest issue is that of comfort […]
In conjunction with MHOX Design, CRP Group has created bespoke orthosis to correct misaligned limbs. Developed over a year-long period, MHOX Design used generative design methods to create objects that can integrate appropriately with the human body.
Scientists at the University of Pittsburg have developed a new 3D printing technique that can replace cartilage in patients suffering from osteoarthritis. Over the last few centuries human lifespans have been growing ever longer. While living well into your 80s, 90s and even beyond 100 years can be rewarding, human biology has yet to catch […]
Fusion Implants, a spin-out company from the University of Liverpool, will use cash from The North West Fund for Venture Capital to 3D print a portion of the tibia on dogs with cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) disease. Rupture of the CCL remains one of the most common orthopedic problems seen in veterinary practices around the world. It causes […]
The last time I saw Dr Chris Sutcliffe was last summer at the International Conference on AM and 3D Printing, when he was doing his best grumpy old man impression. The grumpiness then was a result of frustrated efforts to commercialise a long running project that had seen Chris and team develop a design and manufacturing […]
The world is a complex system of biodiversity, individual components interacting, giving and taking from one another. As we begin to truly understand this concept, we can begin to harness the power of living in symbiosis with our environment. Take seaweed, for instance. Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia have been exploring […]
A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder — which has increased the thickness of her skull from 1.5cm to 5cm, causing reduced eyesight and severe headaches — has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant.
Life can be tough for the creatures that haven’t reincarnated themselves to full-human status, yet. Without opposable thumbs and kick-ass forebrains, it’s almost impossible to invent new technologies or even perform basic medical care. And, so, animals are left hobbling around with fractured fins and broken beaks. Researchers at North Carolina State University’s Laboratory for Additive Manufacturing and […]
Many fellow fans of 3D Printing will have already read about the 14-month-old boy, Roland Lian Cung Bawi, whose life was recently saved at Kosair Children’s Hospital with the help of 3D Printing.
JASON BARNES had wanted to be a professional drummer since he was a teenager. But when he lost his arm in a freak accident he thought his dream was over. Now he has a second chance at the big time – thanks to a brand new robotic arm. Barnes lost the lower half of his […]
The BIOFABRIS is a National Institute of S&T in Biomanufacturing of multidisciplinary,
located at the Chemical Engineering Campus of UNICAMP, character that aims to integrate computational tools, synthesis and development of new biomaterials and application of engineering techniques to obtain biomedical devices (prostheses and orthopedic orthoses) and substitutes for live biological tissues or defective or missing human organs.