3d in the news

Sacramento Bee-Dec 2, 2017

Veterans, many of them requiring wheelchairs, told Cuyahoga Community College students about their longings as they all gathered not too long ago in a room at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. The Tri-C students were studying how to use 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, to make ...

Digital Journal-10 hours ago

The development comes from the University of Michigan and the key to faster printing stems from the algorithm being able to preemptively compensate for the vibrations caused by 3D printers. In trials, this has led to printers running twice as quickly to printer models in commercial use. The appeal to ...

The Verge-Dec 1, 2017

Tomorrow's replacement skin could be 3D printed from a new ink embedded with living bacteria. Bacteria are able to do everything from breaking down toxins to synthesizing vitamins. When they move, they create strands of a material called cellulose that is useful for wound patches and other medical ...

3ders.org (blog)-6 hours ago

This time, instead of focusing on VR, the students want to use 3D printed heart models as a way to achieve the same end goal: showing patients what their heart defects look like. The new iteration of Heartbits uses patient-specific CT scan data to create 3D printed heart models. These models show patients ...

Space.com-Nov 30, 2017

Registration is open for Phase 3 of NASA's 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, which searches for ways to create shelters for astronauts on locations such as the moon and Mars. The $2 million prize for this phase encourages competitors to create miniature habitats using "indigenous materials" from the location ...

Firstpost-12 hours ago

Researchers studied 3D printing as a way to create customised prostheses for patients with conductive hearing loss. The technology has been used successfully to solve a number of other medical prosthesis problems, including in the areas of joint replacement and facial reconstruction surgery.