and avenues for commercialization, including non-fouling medical tools and devices, such as implants and scalpels, nozzles for 3d printing and, potentially, larger-scale applications for buildings and marine vessels.
Another avenue for application is functional 3d printing and microarray devices, especially in printing highly viscous and sticky biological and polymeric materials where friction and contamination are major obstacles.
the good news is that 3d printing does have the potential to help patients today in many other ways t
and other medical devices have been pumped out of 3d printers, but never before has the technology proven so integral to the production of a pill.
Traditional 3d printing with plastics is done by heating a polymer, then applying it layer by layer to build an object.
The 3d printing technology (called Zipdose) developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals isn much different. Each pill is built layer-by-layer to form a porous material with a precisely tuned dose of the medication.
Levetiracetam Aprecia Pharmaceuticals sees Spritam as just the first step into the world of 3d printing pills.
but 3d printing could make it possible for medications to be made custom for patients, even if they require high dosages.
This sort of customization would have been prohibitively expensive prior to 3d printing technology. Aprecia Pharmaceuticals expects to begin selling Spritam in the US sometime in early 2016.
Otherwise, hey, better medical technology thanks to 3d printing is good for everyone o
#This new high-power diamond laser can cut steel Although lasers based on diamond have been around around for several years,
and also as a cartridge for 3d printing. opo was a joint award winner at the Thought for Food Challenge in Lisbon,
These techs include things like 3d printing, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, infinite computing, networks, sensors, nanotechnology, and virtual realitynd is essentially a list of the most disruptive technologies ever invented.
#3d printing And The Momentous Change For Africa's Amputees A stunning breakthrough has been achieved with 3d printing,
Professor Matt Ratto, of the University of Toronto faculty of information, tells Forbes that 3d printing offers faster way to create prosthetics with the time to completion cut rom one week to approximately one
and the thermoplastic moulding or fibreglass layout is replaced with 3d printing. A 3d scan of a residual limb can be sent within seconds to a prosthetist who can design a replacement,
and a home or small business type 3d printer, totalling about $6, 000 in value, he says.
and printing technology and the development of new materials for 3d printing, there is huge potential development for the future o
and produced with 3d printing by postdoc Miguel Molerón, is central to the new method. The structure is a pipe with a square cross-section
The patterning, done with a 3d printer allows the resulting flat components to have varying temporal response to the same stimuli.
#Can 3d printing keep lab-grown organs alive? Using sugar, silicone, and a 3d printer, bioengineers and surgeons have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels.
The work points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation. The research may provide a method to overcome one of the biggest challenges in regenerative medicine:
SUGAR AGESBIOENGINEERING graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bearsing 3d printing.
Using an open-source 3d printer that lays down individual filaments of sugar glass one layer at a time
and send the resultant high-resolution 3d images to a 3d printer that produces hyper-accurate replicas.
#New 3d printer should work in the vacuum of outer space Last November, California-based Made in Space grabbed headlines
when one of its specially-designed 3d printers became the first such device to print an object in outer space...
Made in Space has created already vacuum-compatible extrusion heads for its existing Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) 3d printer,
Following this, the researchers fed the information into the software used to control a custom-built 3d printer
"This represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries,
The short video below shows the 3d printing process used for the production of the silicone guides u
which 3d printing has huge potential. Dental implants are on that list, too, and if new research out of the University of Groningen in The netherlands comes to fruition,
The resultant mixture was hardened then using ultraviolet light and put inside a 3d printer to print samples of replacement teeth.
#3d-Printed Pathway Helps Nerve Growth 3d printing has some amazing possibilities for architecture and design, not the least
the researchers used a custom-built 3d printer to make silicone guides for nerve regeneration. These 3d-printed nerve pathways were embedded with biochemical cues to promote growth.
"This represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries,
and body parts using a hacked 3d printer bought off the shop shelves. The new research, published in the journal Science Advances, demonstrates that it is possible to replicate the heart through 3d printing.
-D printing of various materials has been a common trend in tissue engineering in the last decade,
Using a 3d printer bought by most consumers, and ackingit with open-source software and hardware, this research team have managed to replicate human organ structures for less than $1, 000 (£650) n
The 3d printer lets the company create a pill with a high drug load up to 1, 000mg of levetiracetam, in a single dose.
is licensed based on 3d printing from the original inventors at MIT. The patent-protected technique uses liquid to stitch together several layers of powder.
#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d-Printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,
. an innovative Japanese biomedical 3d printing company, has created a 3d bone printer capable of producing artificial bone structures for humans.
His technology from Conformis uses a 3d printer to produce a jig specifically built for an individual patient.
The jigs that come from 3d printing are based on CT SCAN data and fit the patient anatomy.
an experiment that has never been attempted before. xman team used Stratasystriple-jetting 3d printing to create a large fluid network within Mushtari that varied in transparency from opaque to clear.
Such mechanical and optical property gradation can only be achieved using multi-material 3d printing with high spatial resolution for manufacturing
The researchers made the implants using a 3d printer. Three-dimensional printers can create items from a wide variety of materials:
except 3d printers can also lay down flat layers on top of each other to build 3d objects. Advances in 3d printing have enabled the rapid production of medical devices that are customized for individual patients, such as hearing aids, dental implants and prosthetic hands.
However, devices made of rigid materials are often unsuitable for young patients who can quickly outgrow the implants.
which involves 3d printing items that are designed to shape-shift after they are printed. Green and his colleagues reasoned that 4d items could grow with young patients if needed."
"This is the first time 3d printing has been used to create a medical implant for treating a life-threatening disease,
The fascinating part is that each tablet is produced using a layering technique similar to now common 3d printing.
which was made with a 3d printer, has been tested successfully on rodents. Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
which was made with a 3d printer, has been tested successfully on rodents. Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
#3d printer for small molecules opens access to customized chemistry Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have simplified the chemical synthesis of small molecules,
he says. 3d printer for molecules could allow us to harness all the creativity, innovation, and outside-the-box thinking that comes
#Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses continuous liquid interface production (w/video) A 3d printing technology developed by Silicon valley startup,
representing a fundamentally new approach to 3d printing. The technology, to appear as the cover article in the March 20 print issue of Science("Continuous liquid interface production of 3d objects),
creating the first 3d printing process that uses tunable photochemistry instead of the layer-by-layer approach that has defined the technology for decades.
"By rethinking the whole approach to 3d printing, and the chemistry and physics behind the process, we have developed a new technology that can create parts radically faster than traditional technologies by essentially'growing'them in a pool of liquid,
hile 3d printing is considered an innovative manufacturing technology, it cannot be used for mass-production of microscopic products.
Advanced 3d printing methods may now be the solution. This is a 3-D printed nerve regeneration pathway implanted in a rat helped to improve walking in 10 to 12 weeks after implantation.
and 3d printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.
custom-built 3d printer to print a guide for regeneration. Incorporated into the guide were printed 3d chemical cues to promote both motor and sensory nerve regeneration.
"This represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries,
#New frontiers in 3d printing Three dimensional printing is revolutionizing the production of new devices and structures, including soft robots,
Now, breaching the next frontier in 3d printing, Jennifer A. Lewis, Sc. D.,has designed new systems to actively mix
a 3d printer would need to seamlessly transition from the flexible material that moves with the wearer joints to the rigid material that holds the electronic components.
yet could not be integrated seamlessly into a single unitary object with 3d printing in the past, "said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M d.,Ph d,
"Her creativity and leadership have transformed already the realm of 3d printing, and once again, she and her team have opened another new path for this emerging field to explore."
these active mixing and switching printheads provide an important advance for multimaterial 3d printing, "said Lewis."They allow one to programmably control both materials composition and structure at the microscale,
including blood vessels and even the heart. particularly far-reaching example would be the ability to guide the vascularization of artificial tissue by 3d printing capsules alongside stem cells,
and avenues for commercialization, including non-fouling medical tools and devices, such as implants and scalpels, nozzles for 3d printing and, potentially, larger-scale applications for buildings and marine vessels.
Another avenue for application is functional 3d printing and microarray devices, especially in printing highly viscous and sticky biological and polymeric materials where friction and contamination are major obstacles.
The bio-ink is then optimised for 3d printing, and developed for use in a standard cell culturing facility without the need for expensive bioprinting equipment.
and remain in their designated layer. his study highlights the importance of integrating advances in 3d printing,
Professor Wallace said. his paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution. 3d printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates
#They are now 3d printing drugs THE Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug made through 3d printing:
a dissolvable tablet that treats seizures. Aprecia Pharmaceuticals said Monday the FDA approved its drug Spritam for adults
The tablet is manufactured through a layered process via 3d printing and dissolves when taken with liquid. The Ohio-based company says its printing system can package potent drug doses of up to 1, 000 milligrams into individual tablets.
The FDA has approved previously medical devices including prosthetics made with 3d printing. An agency spokeswoman confirmed the new drug is the first prescription tablet approved that uses the process.
Doctors are increasingly turning to 3d printing to create customised implants for patients with rare conditions
#Gel scaffold paves way for 3d printing of biological organs To improve 3d printing, simply add gel.
A fresh technique uses one to support complex shapes that would fall apart under their own weight in normal 3d printing.
A hitch in using traditional 3d printing to create the kinds of structure found in our organs is that they collapse long before being finished.
The use of 3d printing to make working tissue and organs is still a long way off,
Yesterday, the FDA approved the first drug to be manufactured using 3d printing. In a buzzword-heavy press release that would make a venture capitalist swoon, Aprecia,
though, 3d printing could offer much more than just tinier pills. Here BBC News: Being able to 3d print a tablet offers the potential to create bespoke drugs based on the specific needs of patients,
which they are used. 3d printing could bring those capabilities into hospitals and clinics, cutting time off delivery and making custom pharmaceuticals easier to obtain b
Rutherford is produced also via electron beam melting, an advanced form of 3d printing. Its engine chamber, injector, turbopumps,
It probably not the breakthrough technology of the year, like 3d printing in 2014 or wearables,
and simple 3d printing techniques for production. The innovation is in how Spiers combined them to create a needed new technology.
#In a first, drug using 3d printing technology gets FDA nod The U s. Food and Drug Administration has approved,
for the first time a drug that uses 3d printing technology, paving the way for potential customization of drugs to suit patients'needs.
which disintegrate in the mouth with a sip of liquid. 3d printing could help companies make products"to the specifications of an individual patient rather than (take a) one-size-fits-all kind of approach,"
"Wedbush Securities analyst Tao Levy said. 3d printers help make products by layering material until a three-dimensional object is created.
British scientists have used also 3d printing to create personalized replica models of cancerous parts of the body to allow doctors to target tumors more precisely y
"3d printing of metal radically changes that. By looking at 3d printing not for that overall structure
but to create individual modular structures that can be combined, that 3d printing transforms everything, "said Czinger during an interview with Reuters in Silicon valley.
According to Czinger, 3d printing transforms everything by changing the way the structural components of cars are fabricated.
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
but they believe their new 3d printing method for car manufacturing will have a huge impact on how the cars of the future are built t
such as nacre or tooth enamel. ur technique is similar to 3d printing, but 10 times faster and much more cost-effective, says Florian Bouville,
include high permeability polymers, nanomagnets for medical diagnostics applications, materials for the 3d printing of metal articles,
The bio-ink is then optimised for 3d printing, and developed for use in a standard cell culturing facility without the need for expensive bioprinting equipment.
"This study highlights the importance of integrating advances in 3d printing, with those in materials science, to realise a biological outcome,
and their design was done traditionally by manufacturing but now, with 3d printing, computer manufacturing and more laser technology,
Advanced 3d printing methods may now be the solution. In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials,
and 3d printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.
custom-built 3d printer to print a guide for regeneration. Incorporated into the guide were printed 3d chemical cues to promote both motor and sensory nerve regeneration.
"This represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries,
and functional materials 3d printing is revolutionizing the production of lightweight structures, soft robots and flexible electronics,
a 3d printer must be able to seamlessly transition from a flexible material that moves with your joints for wearable applications,
and properties within printed objects is the next frontier in 3d printing. Towards this objective, Harvard researchers have designed new multimaterial printheads that mix
and Lewis."Together, these active mixing and switching printheads provide an important advance for multimaterial 3d printing,
#Breakthrough in 3d printing of replacement body parts QUT biofabrication team has made a major breakthrough by 3d printing mechanically reinforced,
or techniques like 3d printing. The study, which will appear on Monday 28 september in the journal Nature Chemistry,
It's porous thanks to the 3d printing process, allowing it to quickly disintegrate with a sip of liquid,
Combining"formulation science"with 3d printing technology first developed at MIT, the company can make porous medications that disintegrate rapidly with very little liquid.
which uses 3d printing to produce a porous, high-dose formulation that rapidly disintegrates with the intake of a small amount of liquid.
000mg that disintegrate in the patient in less than 10 seconds. y combining 3d printing technology with a highly-prescribed epilepsy treatment,
using 3d printing, and an experimental propulsion system, and tested it inside a pig stomach. The tadpole endoscope, swimming in a stomach-shaped test tank The capsule itself is a simple structure, 13mm in diameter,
as well as nozzle heads for 3d printing. The material could also have larger scale applications on marine vessels
Sitting somewhere between the traditional art of weaving and the recent home availability of 3d printers,
and a technology which is emerging 3d printing. There is an intersection between these two technologies to achieve something
Now with 3d printing you can scan your foot and you can scan an insole or even a whole sole or the whole shoe at some point. he designer and the chiropodist can say that you need to remove some material here
In 2011, researchers at the University of Exeter made headlines with a 3d printer that created designs in chocolate,
a 3d printer working that uses prepared capsules of food to print dishes such as ravioli at the press of a button.
As well as working on projects related to 3d printing, the team also those experiments with the use Big data in the kitchen-for example
"3d printing offers new opportunities for personalized cuisine, a concept that will revitalize both the food industry and the restaurant business,
"In field of gastronomy, the possibilities of 3d printing are not yet apparent, "Castells said.""Printing flat designs can be done,
has been selling 3d printers since 1998, according to Felip Fonollosa, its director general. It has incorporated recently a paste extruder system into its printers,
Inspired by recent advancements in micron-scale 3d printing he and a USC Viterbi research team that included chemical engineering
#Harvard Engineers Create a 3d Printed Autonomous Robot Using a 3d printer, Harvard engineers have developed one of the first soft robots that moves autonomously.
#Where to find a 3d printer nearby The demand for 3d printers is on the rise. But, if you don't have access to one,
3d printing can seem expensive and inefficient, holding back your design. Fortunately, out of this need is growing new innovation for making 3d printers available for anyone with a design.
There's the 3d printing vending machine model, the DIY 3d printer, and now there's a website to find nearby 3d printers for quick turnaround on printing jobs. makexyz. com is a simple website that allows anyone with a 3d printer to rent out their services to anyone with printing needs.
The site shows all the 3d printing options nearby with the cheapest showing up first with all the details of the printer.
Need to print with full color sandstone? This is your place. The closest printer to me, for example, is a Prusa Mendel I2 that uses#ABS Plastic in numerous colors.
The price: 50 cents per cubic centimeter. If this worked for my design, I would upload the design to the website where it gives me a price that
Zak Stone reports for Fast Company that people with 3d printers have been eager to sign up: Already, more than 500 printers around the United states have signed up--with everything from homemade printers, to Makerbots, to $30, 000 professional machines.
Stone calls it a Kinko's for 3d printing. And he could be on to something. Could Fedex Kinko's
(or other printing service chains) become the Kinko's of 3d printing? With widespread stores already in place, a forward-thinking chain could make 3d printers available and more accessible.
It probably wouldn't make sense to put them in every store, but 3d printers in big cities and college towns, at least to start, could really help evolve their printing chain's brand.
But maybe makexyz, and other services, have beaten chains to the 3d printing demand, at least in these early stages of the technology.
Find a 3d printer close to you. via Fast Company Photo: Flickr/kakisse s
#Which city is getting Google's ultrafast Internet? Congratulations denizens of Austin, Texas, Google Fiber--the company's blazing fast gigabit broadband service--is coming to your city.
After some speculation, Google officially announced today that Austin would indeed become the second metropolitan area to get the service after the company first built up the infrastructure in Kansas city and surrounding communities,
from initial MRI to 3d printing, could be completed within days, said Dr. Mao. They will begin clinical trials once the team has raised enough cash to start printing
at home 3d printing for manufacturing; and right now in Hong kong, Firechat, which is enabling protesters to circumvent Internet service providers.
as Makerbot learned after it suddenly clamped down on its open-source 3d printing hardware after a community of early supporters spent years contributing to Makerbot design (it worth watching rint the Legend, a new documentary that chronicles the whole ordeal, available
The early prototypes of the Cognitoys dinosaur were printed using a 3d printing system, but when they come to market,
send it to a 3d printer and within hours it printed and installed on my car door.
IMG 6409 Cut the Cost of Tools Makers can access expensive professional tools through companies like Techshop where you can access large computational power/storage and machines like 3d printers, for example, for an hour at a time.
Because microfactories move concepts to products faster by using crowdsourcing for the design and 3d printing for the manufacturing.
Crowdsourcing rapidly taps into a global talent pool of people who can solve any particular engineering challenge faster. 3d printers use less material,
A 3d printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary robotic 3d printer that can'draw'structures in the air.
who helped develop the robotic 3d printer that combined the MX3D-Resin with a welder to be able to"draw"fast-setting metal structures.
A 3d printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary robotic 3d printer that can'draw'structures in the air.
who helped develop the robotic 3d printer that combined the MX3D-Resin with a welder to be able to"draw"fast-setting metal structures.
And just a few weeks ago in early December we learned of a collaboration between 3d printing company Organovo and the Yale School of medicine that aims to pioneer 3d bioprinted surgical tissues themselves.
And as an estimated 100000 people are on the waiting list for organ transplantation in the US alone it#s no wonder that the medical field is turning its focus towards 3d printing r
#Design Lab Workshop merges 3d printing with solar energy for glowing architecture As more architects look into ways of using additive manufacturing as a way of constructing their buildings,
wee been seeing new ways of creating modular structures to even large-scale 3d printers that are capable of printing an entire house (or multiples) within a day.
Historically, architects have been using 3d printers for years to create small-scale mockups of concepts to present to clients or colleagues,
what possible with 3d printing and architecture are Design Lab Workshop Brian Peters and Daphne Firos.
the design team has been focusing on an experimental structure that highlights the potential of architecture including new fabrication techniques (3d printing),
and used as a 3d print head to create a makeshift Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3d printer for the project.
and 3d printing space, be sure to check out the rest of their portfolio over at Design Lab Workspace.
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#Recent developments in 3d printed plastic electronics showing promise With today's printed plastic electronics performing nearly just as well as
With these facts in mind, the conversation then turns into how advancements in 3d printing can
#Doctors use 3d printing to aid successful open-heart surgery on four-year old Jan 15, 2015 By Simon Born with a heart condition that resulted in her having two open heart surgeries before the time she was even four years old, Adaenelie Gonzalez, a four-year old from Miami, Florida in the United states,
However unlike her previous open heart surgeries, the use of 3d printing enabled doctors to perform a third open heart surgery last week that may just be her last.
Creating an anatomically-correct 3d print of a patient heart is far from your run-of-the-mill 3d printing project, however.
who then 3d printed the complex heart model over a 24-hour period using Stratasys 3d printers. said that beautiful,
Thanks to the success of Gonzalez surgery, Miami Children Hospital plans on using 3d printing in the future for other surgical procedures."
2015 By Simonconsidering all of the developments that wee been seeing in the space of both new 3d printers and 3d printing filament in the past six months alone, there a lot for makers, designers, engineers,
it is perhaps the 3d printing materials themselves that have been making a huge splash. Previously, wee seen how Made in Space is making their pace-approvedfilament available to the general public for creating their own pace-readytools
and parts as well as developments in making 3d printing material recipes open source-such as Autodesk decision to release the recipe of their Ember 3d printer resin.
Now, scientists from Singapore have invented a new type of thermoplastic filament that can be used in existing 3d printers to create functional circuits for use in electrical gadgets.
for 3d printing. In comparison, Protoplant conductive PLA filament has a resistivity of about 15 Wcm
and easily using existing desktop 3d printers rather than entirely new systems. e believe that our material will encourage more innovation
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