Medical Research
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Materials science engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are developing a new, 3D printed artery graft (artificial blood vessel) that allows doctors and patients to keep tabs on its health remotely. The implantable vessel, made of a flexible composite and capable of real-time monitoring, is described in a new study…
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Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body’s intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues. This approach to sugar 3D printed blood vessels is not entirely new: sugar has already been used in experiments with selective laser sintering and in bioprinting. In the research…
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Smart, 4D biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a new way to print shape-shifting soft robots. Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes of Rice’s Brown School of Engineering developed a method to print objects that can be manipulated to take on alternate forms…
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Unexpected worlds collide in this research project spearheaded by a team of mechanical engineers and computer scientists from the University of Minnesota. The group has developed a 3D printing technique that uses motion capture technology, typically used for moviemaking, to print electronic sensors onto organs that are expanding and contracting.…
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An international team of researchers from universities in China, Belgium and the U.S. has made a bioprinting breakthrough by successfully 3D printing an ear inside the body of a mouse. The study, entitled “Noninvasive in vivo 3D bioprinting,” details the team’s innovative method for printing an ear in vivo without…
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A team from the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine has developed a personalized 3D printed vent-splitter device that allows for multiple patients to receive tailored pressures from the same ventilator unit. The device, called VentMI, has been licensed by a local startup, MakeMedical LLC, and could help to improve…
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Sciperio, the research arm of Florida-based nScrypt, has announced a joint project with several partners through which it will seek to develop on-demand human blood for future blood supply. The project will leverage nScypt’s microdispensing technology and will be undertaken in collaboration with The Uniformed Services University of the Health…
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A team of MIT engineers that is developing flexible neural implants has found a way to 3D print neural probes and electronic devices that are rubbery and soft in quality. The innovative devices, made from an electrically conductive polymer, could offer a safer alternative to conventional brain implants and metal-based…
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A joint team of researchers from Rensselaer, Northwestern University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed a methodology that could improve the treatment of aggressive glioblastoma brain tumors. The process, which combines medical imaging and bioprinting technologies, can help scientists to better understand the complex structure…
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A team of scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in North Carolina has reported the development of “the world’s most sophisticated laboratory model of the human body.” Developed using 3D bioprinting and other biofabrication techniques, the model is made up of a system of miniaturized 3D…
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