3D printing

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...]

SELECTBIO 10th Annual Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2018

October 1, 2018

Welcome to the SELECTBIO 10th Annual Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2018. Bringing together researchers and industry participants from both academia and industry, this established congress now in its 10thconsecutive year, [more...]

Creating Precision Optical Components with Inkjet Printing

June 24, 2018

Researchers at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) have developed an inkjet printing technique that can be used to print optical components, such as waveguides. The printing approach can also fabricate electronics [more...]

Single-Cell Analysis for Identification of Fibroblast Subtypes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

March 4, 2018

Single-cell analysis holds enormous potential to study how individual cells influence disease and respond to treatment, but the lack of cost-effective and user-friendly instrumentation remains challenging. As described in a study [more...]

International MicroNanoConference, 12 & 13 December 2017 Call for Abstract

December 12, 2017

The international MicroNanoConference has an established track record in bringing together the value chain of the different micro and nano fields of endeavour. The active involvement of the industry, science and user community of [more...]

Low-cost Wearables Manufactured by Hybrid 3D Printing

September 10, 2017

A complete hybrid 3D-printed device flexes and conforms to the body’s shap (Image credit: Alex Valentine, Lori Sanders and Human skin must flex and stretch to accommodate the body’s every move. Anything worn tight on the body [more...]

Oxford Scientists Develop New Method of 3D Printing Living Tissues

August 19, 2017

Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures. The approach could revolutionise regenerative medicine, enabling the production of complex tissues and [more...]

BYU Researchers Developed New 3D-printing Technology for Lab-on-a-chip Devices

August 19, 2017

3D-printed microfluidic device (image credit: BYU) Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers. Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that [more...]

Researchers 3D Print Microfluidic Blood Vessel Model to Study Disease-Causing Blood Clots

August 16, 2017

We’ve seen 3D printed blood vessels before – even an entire functioning network of them that was surviving in mice – but researchers in the Netherlands who are working with blood vessels and 3D printing technology are focused on [more...]

UBC Engineers Invent 3D-printed Device to Monitor Water Quality

August 1, 2017

UBC researchers say measuring water quality continuously is vital in ensuring people’s drinking water is safe (Image credit: WANYEE LI/METRO) Engineers at the University of British Okanagan have designed a 3D-printed device that [more...]

Penn Students’ Design To Reach New Heights Aboard the ISS

July 16, 2017

In response to a call to “Print the Future,” three Penn undergraduates won the opportunity to have their design 3-D printed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Rising seniors Jaimie Carlson, Laura Gao, and Adam Zachar [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...]

“3D Printed Microfluidic Devices” Is Open for Submission in Micromachine

June 11, 2017

Dear Colleagues, 3D printing has revolutionized the microfabrication prototyping workflow over the past few years. With the recent improvements in 3D printing technologies, highly complex microfluidic devices can be fabricated via [more...]

Breakthrough in 3D Printing of Glass Could Benefit Microfluidics

May 31, 2017

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and academic collaborators have demonstrated the synthesis of transparent glass through 3D printing, a development that could ultimately lead to altering the design and structure of lasers [more...]

3D-Printing of Glass Now Possible

April 28, 2017

Three-dimensional printing allows extremely small and complex structures to be made even in small series. A method developed at the KIT for the first time allows also glass to be used for this technique. As a consequence of the properties [more...]

The Emerging Frontiers and Applications of High-Resolution 3D Printing

April 16, 2017

Authors: Mao Mao 1, ,Jiankang He 1,* ,Xiao Li 2, ,Bing Zhang 1, ,Qi Lei 1, Yaxiong Liu 1, and Dichen Li 1 State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2 Department [more...]

Machine Learning Enhances Smartphone Attachment for Disease Detection

April 9, 2017

A prototype of the computational sensor designed by machine learning. (Image credit: Aydogan Ozcan/UCLA) A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has applied machine learning to a mobile device [more...]

Smartphone Microscope Offers Cost-effective DNA Sequencing and Genetic Mutation Analysis

January 22, 2017

Working with a smartphone, the device can use different modes to display cell images (Image Credit: UCLA, Stockholm University and Uppsala University) A smartphone-based microscope developed by researchers at the California NanoSystems [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...]

Organ-On-A-Chip Startup, Emulate, Grabs $45M to Shake Up Drug Discovery

November 6, 2016

Organ on a Chip (Image credit of Emulate) Who will come up with the killer app for drug discovery, the thing that will make finding new medicines faster, cheaper, and less risky? No one has come close to figuring that out, but a group of [more...]