Editorials
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The risk has never been higher than in recent times as brave and passionate entrepreneurs attempt to pave the way for this new world of three-dimensional (3D) lab-grown cell cultivated, plant-based & hybrid meat, fish, and other food alternatives. The demand for alternative meat and the removal of animals from…
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A wonderland, by definition, is a land or place full of wonderful things; when it comes to the sector of biofabrication, this is true for the city of Utrecht. This opinion editorial is a tribute to my almost three years in Utrecht and all of the innovators, start-ups, and colleagues…
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In memory of Jemma Redmond My journey in this industry started over ten years ago as a young wide-eyed regenerative medicine master’s student at NUI Galway, that suddenly became an “extrusion 3D bioprinting maximalist and deep technology entrepreneur” during my bioengineering British Heart Foundation-funded Ph.D. research scholarship at Imperial College…
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3D printing is unique as a disruptive technology in one key respect, and that is, having disrupted the manufacturing paradigm through the introduction of rapid prototyping some 25-30 years ago, it is now disrupting manufacturing again. This is based on the fact that today, 3D printing technologies have been refined…
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Prior to all of the news surrounding Facebook’s metaverse rebrand and $10 billion investment into the metaverse, the CEO of Ourobionics John Zandbergen and the CEO of blockchain company Cartallum Wynand Oschmann were establishing a partnership in the Netherlands to initiate the development of the first global 3D Biofabrication &…
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Even more so than Stratasys-Objet and 3D Systems-ZCorp, the acquisition of ExOne by Desktop Metal can be considered a merger, rather than an acquisition, where two companies that operate in a similar segment join forces to leverage each other’s strengths. That is exactly what is going to happen here but…
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Additive Manufacturing has become an integral production process in the high-end industry for highly complex structures that are either too expensive or even impossible to produce via traditional production techniques. For metallic AM parts, homogeneous material properties are critical to ensure the continuous performance of the part during its life…
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The year 2020 is getting to a close (’bout time) and it’s time to start looking at what our 2021 trends analysis holds for the additive manufacturing industry, with 3dpbm’s December AM Focus 2021 Trends. We need to be realistic: even as vaccines arrive and the COVID pandemic eases, for…
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Autodesk University, the large conference initiative promoted by American software giant Autodesk, ended on November 24, 2020, with additive manufacturing featuring in forty-five of the event’s sessions. Though AM’s place in Autodesk’s lineup is laudable, industry players should be wary of the corporatization of knowledge disseminated by Autodesk’s initiative More…
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Relativity Space, which recently had its rocket design selected by Lockheed Martin for a NASA mission to take flight in 2021, has secured another $500 million in its series D funding round. The company secured the lion’s share of this cash from Tiger Global Management with participation from new investors…
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