7-Year-Old Receives 3D Printed Hand Thanks to e-NABLE and Materialise
Padmaloshn, a 7-year-old boy from Kuala Lumpur, was born without a fully developed right hand. When Ayishwariya Menon, a volunteer teacher and Clinical Team Manager for...
EpiBone to Engineer Lab-Grown Bones Using Patients’ Own Stem Cells
New York City-based startup EpiBone focuses on an alternative to painful grafts by engineering 3D structures of living bones made from patients' own stem cells. With...
FDA Approves 3D Printed Titanium Cranial Plate Implants
While the FDA has already approved craniofacial implants from Oxford Performance Materials, BioArchitects has now received FDA clearance for 3D printed patient specific titanium cranial...
Medtech Company Stryker to Build 3D Printing Manufacturing Facility
The Fortune 500 medical technology company Stryker, among other products offering joint replacement implants, will build a 3D printing manufacturing facility this year. The news...
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals Receives $ 35 Million to Advance 3D Printed Drugs
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals has received the approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first 3D printed drug called SPRITAM in August last...
World’s First Titanium Thumb Implant Created Using 3D Printing Technology
A team of doctors at the Phramongkutklao Hospital in Thailand has successfully implanted a 3D printed titanium bone replacing the metacarpal of the patient's...
LDR and Poly-Shape Collaborate for 3D Printed Spinal Implants
Medical device company LDR Holding Corporation and Poly-Shape, a French manufacturing company specialised in laser sintering, have signed an exclusive partnership for the development of...
Jawbone Successfully Reconstructed Using Materialise’s Planning Software and 3D Printed Guides
When Tan Seng Yam developed a swelling near his jaw, doctors and dentists assured him it wasn't critical. A few years later however, after the...
Toddler Receives Kidney Transplant With the Aid of 3D Printing Technology
3-year old Lucy from Northern Ireland has received a life-saving kidney implant from her father. 3D printing technology has partly been responsible for the...
Johnson & Johnson Announces Partnership With Carbon3D
Johnson & Johnson announced in a press release that they will develop custom surgical devices with Carbon3D´s CLIP Technology. After the car manufacturer Ford partnered with...
