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.
Just a couple of years ago Fanny, a 16-year-old Swedish teenager, was facing a life in a wheelchair. She suffers from a rare degenerative condition causing skeletal deformities. Fortunately now Fanny is on her way to recovery, with the help of a customised 3D Printed hip implant. Check the video below for details:
The need for human skin is urgent and ever growing. Patients with burn wounds and skin diseases suffer intensely, due to the removal of skin from a donor site. Many patients cannot be accurately treated with current therapies, since the amount and quality of human skin produced by current techniques is insufficient. Therefore, improvement of human skin production is desperately needed.
This is really cool, a MakerBot Industries-supported 3D printable prosthetic hand project.
When Richard Van As, a master carpenter in Johannesburg, South Africa, decided to make a set of mechanical fingers, it wasn’t just for fun
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.