by Bruce Brown | November 8, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Less than 40 years ago, in 1986, the U.S. patent office granted the first patent for 3D printing to Charles Hull. Hull founded 3D Systems Corp. that same year and introduced the first 3D printer, the SLA-1, in 1988. Moving ahead through the 90s and the early...
by Unber Shafiq | March 14, 2023 | Medical
Evonik, a leading specialty chemical company, and BellaSeno, a medical company focused on regenerative implants, have announced their joint efforts in advancing the commercialization of 3D-printed bioresorbable implants for bone regeneration. The two companies first...
by William McCleary | September 12, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Flexible electronics have had a seismic impact on the world of wearables: body-contouring patches, devices with stretchable sensors, and implantable electronics of all kinds. But all share one impediment: integration with the human body. As wondrous as these pliable...
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by William McCleary | July 1, 2022 | Enabling Tech
To date, manufacturing a robot usually involves a series of often-complicated steps, integrating a variety of high-tech components in precise configurations. But not anymore. At least not for a group of engineers at UCLA who have been creating robots in a single step....
by Amantha May | December 3, 2021 | Medical
A new, 3D-printed tissue implant that incorporates a patient’s own blood components could help speed up skin wound healing. Researchers from Dublin’s RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed a bioink from platelet-rich plasma to print a...
