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MIT scientists can now shrink 3D printed objects down to nanoscale versions

December 27, 2018

Scale is not a limitation of 3D printing. There are factory-sized 3D printers and 3D printers that can produce nanoscale 3D geometries. And then there’s Shrinky Dinks. Everyone remembers those kits designed to shrink [more...]

10 things You Should Know About How 3D Bioprinting

June 24, 2017

The healthcare industry is trying to capitalize on 3D printing, and fast. From prosthetic limbs and various surgical devices made with plastics and metals, to using cells to print human organs, experiments in this industry are progressing [more...]

MIT Researchers Make New Graphene Discovery

January 15, 2017

Graphehe gyroid (Image Credit: Zhao Qin, MIT) Researchers from MIT have created a new material that is actually stronger than graphene – making it 10 times stronger than steel, with only five percent of its density The research [more...]

3D Bioprinting Revolution Solidifies Gains

December 4, 2016

In this image, a 3D-printed four-valve switch (left) is shown connected to a 3D-printed cell culture chamber (right). Each valve is pneumatically operated through one of four dedicated tubes, each of which contains a different [more...]

FDA Approved 3D Printed Drug Available In The US

March 28, 2016

The first FDA approved 3D printed drug for epilepsy, Spritam is now available in the US (Photo credit: Aprecia Pharmaceuticals) A continued step forward in the treatment of epilepsy and the power of 3D printing. According to the Centers [more...]

3D Printing Tips and Tech: Get to Know Those Acronyms

December 5, 2015

With the rapid pervasiveness of 3D printing, confusion has begun to set in among some people regarding the different processes. Simon Caiger , Product Manager for JK Lasers, says there’s so much misunderstanding, organizations are [more...]

How to Smooth 3D-Printed Parts

December 5, 2015

Many high-quality parts produced on 3D printers can be sanded by hand to eliminate layer lines and produce a smooth finish. There’s a misconception that 3D printing cannot make the kind of smooth and polished parts available from [more...]

An Easy Test for Sickle Cell Disease

November 8, 2015

A new device developed by University of Connecticut biomedical engineers provides a simple, inexpensive, and quick test for the diagnosis and monitoring of sickle cell disease using a common smartphone. (Credit: Peter Morenus/UConn Photo) [more...]

3D Printed Implant Contains Intricate Network of Blood Vessels

November 3, 2015

Red dye shows the tiny vessels in the silicone construct created in the Miller lab using a 3D printer. (Image Credit: Jeff Fitlow) Using sugar, silicone and a 3D printer, a team of bioengineers at Rice University and surgeons at the [more...]

Creating Microchannels with a 3-D Printer

October 5, 2015

Bionanotechnologists from Wageningen University have developed a new, inexpensive way to make microfluidic devices without using costly materials or cleanroom facilities. The technique, which uses a 3D printer and Lego plastic, is called [more...]

New Frontiers in 3D printing

September 22, 2015

A new “active” 3D printhead, developed by Wyss Core Faculty member Jennifer Lewis, mixes complex inks using a rotational impeller inside a microscale nozzle, allowing heterogeneous materials to be printed in three dimensions. [more...]

3-D Printing Breaks the Glass Barrier

September 6, 2015

The palette of materials that can be used as 3-D printing “ink” is quickly growing in diversity, but one ubiquitous material has, until now, been absent: transparent glass. It’s already possible to use tiny granules of glass in a [more...]

Customizing 3D Printing – New System Automatically Turns CAD Files into Visual Models

September 6, 2015

A new Web-based interface allows a wide range of modifications to basic designs that are printable on a 3-D printer, allowing novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours. The technology behind 3-D printing [more...]

Unibody Lab-on-a-chip Fast Prototyping

May 10, 2015

Author: Germán Comina, Anke Suska and Daniel Filippini Optical Devices Laboratory (ODL) Linkoping University, Sweden Introduction: The development of disposable devices for optical chemical detection with cell phones, entail challenging [more...]

Smartphone Video Microscope Automates Detection of Parasites in Blood

May 8, 2015

A schematic of the CellScope Loa device, a mobile phone-based video microscope. The device includes a 3D-printed case housing simple optics, circuitry and controllers to help process the sample of blood. CellScope can quantify levels of [more...]

New Approach to 3D Printing Technology, Carbon3D Unveils Breakthrough CLIP

March 17, 2015

Principle of Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP), Image Credit: Carbon3D In what may be one of the biggest stories we have covered this year, a new company, Carbon3D has just emerged out of stealth mode, unveiling [more...]

Graphene Structures Created with 3D Printing

February 21, 2015

Image Credit: Advanced Materials/Esther García-Tuñon et al. Researchers have created a graphene composite paste that can be 3D printed into complex, patterned structures. Super-strong, super-light, durable-yet-flexible two-dimensional [more...]

3D-Printed Fluidic Platforms Enable Blood Component Measurement

February 15, 2015

As an emerging rapid prototyping method, 3D-printing has recently caught tremendous attention. Scientists including Chengpeng Chen and his advisor, Dr. Spence, from Michigan State University have been taking advantage of 3D-printing to [more...]

Precision 3D Printing by Solidscape

November 2, 2014

With new stories announced daily, the vast opportunities within the 3D printing technology seem to be as endless as the new capabilities. An intriguing space, of course, is the use of 3D printing in medical applications. One 3D printer [more...]

3D laser lithography

October 13, 2014

Additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing is hitting the headlines with ever-spectacular developments. While AM has been used for years as the de facto standard for rapid prototyping in architectural, aerospace, and [more...]