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...
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by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2021 | Medical
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has come a long way from fabricating tiny dinosaur figures . We’ve written about 3D-printed tissues that speed bone healing, 3D-printed organs, 3D-printed living skin with blood vessels, and much more. Taking “much...
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by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2021 | Enabling Tech
This is hair-standing technology. Can you Imagine having surgery and during the procedure, technicians scan an area of your bones that have missing or depleted bone tissue? And then — this is the part that tightened the follicles on my lower arms — during...
by Bruce Brown | October 22, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Researchers are pushing the capabilities of 3D printing, using soft materials for medical applications such as drug delivery systems, cartilage replacement, retinal implants, and much more. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...
by Bruce Brown | October 19, 2020 | Health
Odds are pretty good that anyone reading this article has some hearing damage from loud noise. According to a 2017 CDC report, almost one in four adults who rated their hearing as good to excellent actually had measurable hearing loss. Men in general along with people...
