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Wake Forest 3D Prints Skin Cells Onto Burn Wounds

Scientists have developed a method of 3D printing new skin cells onto burn wounds at Wake Forest University’s Military Research Center. The method is far superior to traditional skin grafts because regular grafts require skin from a donor site somewhere on the patient’s body. Taking skin from a donor site is painful and sometimes the patients do […]

Toddler Gets 3D Printed Magic Arms

Researchers at the Nemours / Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children have created something heartwarming; a 3D printed exoskeleton that allows a two year old girl named Emma to move her arms for the first time. When Emma was born she was diagnosed with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC). Children with AMC are frequently unable to move their […]

3D Printed Surgical Guides Make Their Malaysian Debut

A 37-year-old Malaysian man has now joined the growing number of people worldwide whose lives have been significantly improved by 3D Printing. Suffering from a badly healed broken arm, which he fractured at a young age, he developed a bony deformity in the left forearm. This led to stiffness and pain when using his left […]

3D Printer Trumps Pig Parts for Kidney Replacements

3D printers may hold the key to successfully producing the first transplantable kidneys for humans. Before 3D bioprinting was widely available, researchers were using pig kidneys as scaffolds to hold human kidney cells.  They would take a pig kidney and wash away the internal cells, leaving the basic structure behind. Then, they would use human […]

The 3D printable finger splint and other low-cost medical devices

After last week life saving 3D printed device, medical 3D printing draws once again attention. A high school student in New Jersey, Ian McHale, just created a finger splint that can be produced with a 3D printer. The goal behind this initiative is to show that 3D printing can help solve concrete problems with minimal ressources.

Personalized 3D Printed Prosthetics Bling

Losing a limb is one of the most traumatic experiences a person can go through. Unfortunately, the reality of the aftershock can be even worse. As amputees are forced to deal with both the psychological and the physical reality of their situations, it creates stress, depression and anger. San Francisco-based company Bespoke Innovations has developed an unusual […]

3D Printing Intervertebral Discs

The modern day plague that is lower back pain, is an ever more apparent problem in a world where most of the work is done when sitting down – and also more often than not in what could be called ergonomically functional conditions. However, whether the aching back is seemingly caused by sitting or some […]

3D Printer Builds Living Tissue – Printed Muscle!

The custom-built machine is able to print materials that share several of the properties of living tissues and can perform some cellular functions. Researchers say this could be used as the building blocks for delivering drugs to places they are needed, or to replace or repair damaged human tissue.

3D-Printed Human Organs Prep Doctors for Real Surgeries

An Iowa businessman says 3D-printed human organs can help doctors practice surgeries before actually opening up a real body. Mark Ginsberg — an Iowa City jewelry store owner, who also has a manufacturing facility with a couple of 3D-printers — has partnered with physicians to help 3D print organ models or whatever they might need, […]