The NOVOPLASM consortium has announced it is the “first in the world” to develop cold plasma technology for the treatment of infected burns and the wound healing of skin grafts. Regenerative medicine …
3D printed DNA-coated ‘ChemoFilters’ unlock targeted cancer therapy
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology and UC San Francisco have developed DNA-loaded 3D printed structures that are capable of directing chemotherapy drugs towards affected organs and a…
3D printed smartphone add-on brings affordable vocal cord disorder diagnosis
A group of Korean scientists have developed a low-cost 3D printed adapter that turns everyday smartphones into endoscopic vocal cord disease diagnostic tools. Once fitted with a laryngoscope, th…
Readily3D develops 3D bioprinted mini pancreas for diabetes drug testing
Volumetric 3D bioprinter manufacturer and EPFL spin-out Readily3D has taken the first step towards developing a 3D printed living model of the human pancreas for testing diabetes medicines. Read…
Researchers 3D print diseased skin to observe skin infections in diabetics
A Korean research team from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Pusan National University have 3D printed an in vitro artificial skin model to observe skin diseases suffered by d…
Clinicians 3D print customized gastro-radiation shielding for cancer patients
Clinicians at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and MIT have developed a novel 3D printed shielding that protects the healthy tissue…
ETH Zurich 3D prints less invasive dissolvable stents to clear the airways of choking patients
ETH Zurich researchers have 3D printed bioresorbable stents that are designed to provide less invasive oxygen relief to those suffering from airway obstruction. By combining two monomers, the…
POSTECH scientists 3D print stents to combat radiation-induced espophigitis in cancer patients
Researchers from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have developed 3D printed stents that could ease the symptoms of esophagitis in radiotherapy patients. Based on a throat cel…
LLNL researchers 3D print first-ever living aneurysm to develop personalized treatments
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Duke University, and Texas A&M, have successfully bioprinted the first-ever aneurysm to be capable of living outside the human body. The LL…
HK inno.N and T&R Biofab to use 3D printed skin for testing skin disorder drugs
South Korean pharmaceutical company HK inno.N has announced plans to use artificial 3D printed skin to test new autoimmune and skin disorder drugs. Working with 3D bioprinting firm T&R Biofab, HK…