Engineers at Duke University and Harvard Medical School have developed a bio-compatible ink that solidifies into different 3D shapes and structures by absorbing ultrasound waves.The ink can be used in deep tissues for biomedical purposes ranging from bone healing to heart valve repair.
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“3D printing has revolutionized manufacturing, but we’re not aware of previous technologies that allowed you to print 3D metal objects at room temperature in a single step,” says NC State Professor Michael Dickey. “This opens the door to manufacturing a wide range of electronic components and devices.”
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A Research Triangle Park-headquartered company is using 3D printing, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to design patient-specific surgical implants and related instruments across multiple fields of medicine. Check out the details.
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A rocket made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts made its launch debut Wednesday night, lifting off amid fanfare but failing three minutes into flight — far short of orbit.
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A Durham-based startup with ties to Duke has raised nearly $14M and could raise up to $22M, according to a filing. And 147 people have invested so far.
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Two UNC alumni are behind Adapt Bionics, a company that creates smart prosthetics through 3D printing.
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A Silicon Valley company using laser processing and 3D manufacturing to disrupt a wide variety of industries, including additive manufacturing, chose Chatham County for its relocation site due to the talent market in the Triangle.
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Developers in Southern California are building what they say will be the first 3D-printed zero net energy neighborhood in the United States.
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Medical practitioners may be able to improve existing treatment methods and develop new personalized ones, for brain aneurysms thanks to researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Duke University and Texas A&M They are the first to produce a living, bioprinted aneurysm outside of the human body, perform a medical procedure on it and observe it respond and heal as it would in an actual human brain.
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