Archive for the ‘3D printing’ category: Page 82
Mar 6, 2016
3D-Printed Drugs Coming Soon
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, health
Frankly, in the US this makes me really nervous. Placing drug making 3D printers in your local pharmacies. I hope that the manufacturer has a mechanism setup to cause the machine not to work if it is stolen by the local drug gangs.
The brave new world of 3D-printed drugs in the healthcare industry is heating up.
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Mar 4, 2016
Goodyear Thinks Tires Of The Future Will Be 3D-Printed Spheres
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, transportation
These #3Dprinted sphere-shaped tires could be the future of automobiles thanks to Goodyear.
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Mar 3, 2016
3D-Printed Brain Tissue a Success
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, neuroscience
A 3D-printed layered structure that incorporates neural cells to mimic the structure of brain tissue has been created by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) in Australia, and it could have major consequences in studying and treating conditions such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. The three-dimensional structure will allow scientists to better understand the complex nature of the brain and its 86 billion nerve cells. We look at the benefits and risks of this scientific breakthrough on the Lip News with Jose Marcelino Ortiz and Jo Ankier.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/researchers-are-getting-clo…ing-brains
Feb 28, 2016
New Hyproline System Capable of High-Speed Mass Customization of Metal 3D Printed Parts
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, robotics/AI
At the end of last year, Davide Sher predicted that 2016 would see metal 3D printing move from a technology capable of producing small batches to a fully-automated method for serial manufacturing. Davide cited a number of machines in development that herald the age of serial metal 3D printing, but he may have left one system out: the Hyproline platform.
Feb 27, 2016
A practical solution to mass-producing low-cost nanoparticles
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, chemistry, health, robotics/AI
Nanoparticles form in a 3-D-printed microfluidic channel. Each droplet shown here is about 250 micrometers in diameter, and contains billions of platinum nanoparticles. (credit: Richard Brutchey and Noah Malmstadt/USC)
USC researchers have created an automated method of manufacturing nanoparticles that may transform the process from an expensive, painstaking, batch-by-batch process by a technician in a chemistry lab, mixing up a batch of chemicals by hand in traditional lab flasks and beakers.
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Feb 26, 2016
A New Boeing Patent Describes Levitating 3D Printing
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, futurism
Feb 26, 2016
Australian surgeon inserts 3D-printed vertebrae in world-first
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
Feb 25, 2016
Doctors implant 3D-printed vertebrae in ‘world’s first’ surgery
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience
Just Amazing
Ralph Mobbs, a neurosurgeon at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, made medical history in late 2015 when he successfully replaced two vertebrae with custom made prosthesis. The patient, in his 60s, suffered from Chordoma, a particularly nasty form of cancer that had formed on his top two vertebrae and threatened to cinch off his spinal cord as it grew. That would have left him a quadriplegic. Complicating matters, those top two vertebrae are what allow you to turn and tilt your head, so it’s not like doctors can easily fashion a replacement out of bone grafted from another part of the patient’s body. They have to fit perfectly and that’s where the 3D printers come in.
Mobbs worked with Anatomics, an Australian medical device manufacturer, to craft perfect replicas of the patient’s top two vertebrae out of titanium. This is the first time that these two particular neck bones have been printed and installed. “To be able to get the printed implant that you know will fit perfectly because you’ve already done the operation on a model … It was just a pure delight,” Mobbs told Mashable Australia. “It was as if someone had switched on a light and said ‘crikey, if this isn’t the future, well then I don’t know what is’.”
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