Archive for the ‘3D printing’ category: Page 97
Jan 17, 2017
Printing Guns, Drugs, and DNA Weapons: Organized Crime Is Being Decentralized
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: 3D printing, bioengineering, biotech/medical
Jan 16, 2017
3D printing makes controversial Moon Express mission to mine lunar materials possible
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, space
California-based commercial aerospace company Moon Express, are on track to send their Electron rocket to the Moon in 2017. The Electron is propelled by 3D printed engines made by Rocket Lab, headquartered in Los Angeles. The project is designed for Google’s modern-day space race: the Lunar X Prize.
3D printed engines
Nine liquid-propellant Rutherford engines are behind the Electron. The rocket engines, the first to use 3D printing for the all core parts, use kerosene and liquid oxygen (LOX) for fuel.
Jan 13, 2017
Need a new ear, nose, or patella? This new 3D printer can create bones and soft tissue
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting
If you were to pick one emerging technology with the potential to have a massive positive impact on humanity in the coming years, there’s a good chance you’d go with 3D bioprinting.
The ability to use “bio-ink” to print out biomaterials ranging from heart tissues to bone and cartilage is incredibly exciting — although at present it’s not exactly the most user-friendly of tech.
One company hoping to change that is Cellink, which this week has announced the launch of its new Bio X printer, which it hopes will bring 3D bioprinting to a whole new audience.
Jan 13, 2017
New patent granted to 3D printed hybrid rocket fuel engines for low cost access to space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, space
Jan 11, 2017
VR Let Me Meet My Daughter Before She Was Born
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, virtual reality
A while ago I got an idea: how awesome would it be to use 4D ultrasound to scan my unborn baby and make a VR experience of that. So I talked my girlfriend over even though the idea felt a bit weird and almost scary.
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How to make it happen? I searched for similar cases online, but couldn’t find any. All I could find was some examples of using ultrasound images for a 3D print of your unborn baby. So this was the first time in the world someone was doing this. Luckily I got people at the Aava Medical Centre excited about the idea, and they helped me forward. I also contacted GE, a manufacturer of 4D ultrasound systems, and they advised me how to extract the right kind of files from the ultrasound machine.
Jan 8, 2017
Synthetic diamonds could one day replace GPS
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, 4D printing, biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Syn Diamonds is a field that I have been educating many on the importance of in areas of QC, healthcare/ medical, and now we’re looking at transportation such as driverless cars. I told folks if we could have a joint venture with Intel and HP in this space; we could see these to companies re-emerge as leaders again just for this one area of technology. Who ever comes up with the 3D or 4D printer that can mass produce the quality we need in syn diamond materials in various scales/ sizes will dominate and make billions as this technology is a core piece to QC.
Lab-grown red diamonds with an atomic defect could one day replace GPS systems thanks to their remarkable sensitivity to magnetic waves, scientists have suggested.
A team at Element Six, a tech company based in Oxfordshire, are exploring the remarkable properties of crystals with a so-called ‘nitrogen vacancy defect’ — a gap in the atomic lattice at the heart of the diamond.
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Jan 6, 2017
This 3D Printed Art Project Could Have Medical Applications
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
Jan 5, 2017
Tiny 3D printed biobots could dispense drug doses from inside your body
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, engineering
Samuel Sia, a professor of biomedical engineering at New York City’s Columbia University, has developed a 3D printed biobot that can be implanted in the body to release controlled doses of drugs. The amazing device can be controlled from outside the body using only magnets.
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Dec 27, 2016
Organovo 3D bioprinted liver tissue could make it to the FDA by 2019
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical
Speculation on 3D printed tissue coming to humans sooner than we think is backed by new pre-clinical findings from 3D bioprinting company Organovo (NASDAQ: ONVO). Though it will still be 3 – 5 years before the U.S. based Organovo apply for clearance of their liver tissue, that is still sooner than perhaps even the FDA had in mind.
Pre-clinical trial data shows that 3D bioprinted liver tissue has been successfully planted into lab-bred mice. The human liver-cell tissue shows regular functionality and, at this stage, is being explored as a suitable patch for the organ.
