The Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing (FEMM) Hub has announced a new sustainability project to ensure an increase in electrification doesn’t result in UK landfills being overrun by redundant pa…
Siemens partners with UK universities to launch Industry 4.0 curriculum
Global technology and industrial manufacturing company Siemens has announced a new Industry 4.0. academic teaching programme in partnership with UK universities. Called Connected Curriculum, the aim i…
Florida A&M University achieves high throughput 3D printing of human cornea
Pharmaceutics Professor Mandip Sachdeva from the Florida A&M University (FAMU) has led a research project to 3D print a cornea in what is reportedly the first example of high throughput printing o…
South Korean researchers 3D bioprint transparent artificial cornea
Researchers from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), and Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, South Korea, have 3D bioprinted an artificial cornea. According to the…
Self-curvature to become next step for 3D bioprinted corneas
In 2018 Newcastle University researchers made headlines after 3D bioprinting viable human corneas. Though years from transplantation, the development is a significant step forward for the field, and d…
3D Printing Industry Review of the Year May 2018
3D printing in May 2018 saw the launch of our second annual 3D Printing Industry Awards (2019 nominations now open) and marked the 10th Anniversary of the RepRap movement. In applications, some of the…
University Medical Centre Utrecht researchers experiment with 3D bioprinted living tissues to treat arthritis
A team of researchers at the University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands are experimenting with 3D bioprinted tissues that can be implanted into a living joint affected by arthritis. Th…
Newcastle University creates first 3D printed human corneas
纽卡斯尔大学的科学家(NCL) successfully 3D printed human corneas for the first time. Gelatinous and multicellular, the artificial corneas are valuable steps towards much needed solu…
Cardiac conduction system visualised using 3D printing
New research is using 3D printing to advance understanding and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms. The heart is the most important organ in the human body. Understanding how the heart behaves is cruc…
Newcastle University release code to streamline 3D printing design
Those time-and-resource-expensive questions about materials and costing could finally be cut down to size. Researchers at Newcastle University have now released the Rapid Manufacturing Advice System, …