Research & Education
China Opens First Medical 3D Printing R&D Center
China's first medical research and development center focused on 3D printing technology has recently been established in Changchun, a city located in the north...
IVIVA Medical Wins KidneyX Award for 3D Printed Artificial Kidney
IVIVA Medical, a biotech startup developing living therapeutics to cure patients with organ failure, was awarded the KidneyX Phase 2 Prize from the Kidney...
Body-on-a-Chip Project: 3D Printed Miniature Organs
Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the Wake Forste Baptist Medical Center, have released images and a video of 3D printed beating miniature hearts. By...
Researchers at Purdue University Developed Algorithms to Safe 3D Printing Time and Material
Researchers at the Purdue University in Indiana have developed new software algorithms to significantly reduce 3D printing time and material. The FFF 3D printing method...
Crashing instead of Hiding – Easter Egg Rescue at cirp GmbH
The EU-funded research project MOAMMM focuses on developing multi-scale simulation methods to optimize 3D-printed “lattice” structures. To give the theoretical principles a reality check...
LLNL Researchers 3D Print Ultra-Lightweight Supercapacitors – Update
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and UC Santa Cruz have successfully 3D printed supercapacitors using an ultra-lightweight graphene gel. This achievement allows for...
Scientists 3D Print Smallest Ever Lattice Structures of Unprecedented Strength
A group of scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have created the smallest ever lattice structure up to date. The so called...
3D Printing Community Is Ready For BBC micro:bit
BBC recently released the BBC micro:bit, a credit card-sized microcontroller for their digital education program. The British broadcaster gives one million of the micro:bits to students in...
Affordable bioprinting: tissue at the touch of a button
Printing a living tissue construct with a 3D printer from the electronics store? Until now, this was impossible. Bioprinting required expensive specialised equipment. Researchers...
3D-Reprinter – A Concept of a Recycling 3D-Printer
The students Yangzi Qin, Yingting Wang, Luckas Fischer and Hanying Xie presented a concept for a recycling 3D printer. The concept aims to recycle printed...
