INSTASWAB: A Better Nasal Swab for COVID-19 Testing
MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products. Over nearly seven years researching 3D printing systems in MIT’s Media Lab,…
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New Low-Cost Dynamically-Controlled Surface for 3D Printers Reduces Waste and Saves Time
3-D printing has the potential to revolutionize product design and manufacturing in a vast range of fields—from custom components for consumer products, to 3-D printed…
Scientists Use Bacteria As Micro-3D Printers to Create Highly Customized Structures
Technique creates highly customized structures that could be used in regenerative medicine. A team at Aalto University has used bacteria to produce intricately designed three-dimensional…
Fresh 3D-Printing Platform: Advanced Tissue Fabrication Paves Way for Bioprinting Tissues and Organs
3D-bioprinting method enables advanced tissue fabrication by using a yield-stress support bath that holds bioinks in place until they are cured and works with a…
New Method Developed to Create “Food Inks” for 3D Printing Fresh Vegetables
Singapore researchers develop new method for ‘printing’ fresh vegetables, leading to tastier, more nutritious food for patients with swallowing difficulties. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University,…
3D-Printed Nanosatellite Thruster Emits Pure Ions for Propulsion
Study is first demonstration of a fully 3D-printed thruster using pure ion emission for propulsion. A 3D-printed thruster that emits a stream of pure ions…
Mighty Morphing 3D Printing: New Shape-Changing Nozzle That Could Revolutionize “4D Printing”
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a new shape-changing or “morphing” 3D printing nozzle that was featured as a Frontispiece in the…
Detecting COVID-19 Antibodies in 10–12 Seconds With a 3D Printed Test Chip
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report findings on an advanced nanomaterial-based biosensing platform that detects, within seconds, antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for…
3D Printers May Be Toxic for Humans – Particles Released Can Infiltrate Deep Into the Lungs
Risk researchers are asking new questions about the health and safety implications and how to mitigate any potential health risks to users of 3D printers…
Food Replicator: Researchers Create Ingredients to Produce Food by 3D Printing
Food engineers in Brazil and France developed gels based on modified starch for use as “ink” to make foods and novel materials by additive manufacturing….
New 3D-Printed Microlenses With Adjustable Refractive Indices – Poised to Improve Imaging, Computing and Communications
Researchers have developed new 3D-printed microlenses with adjustable refractive indices – a property that gives them highly specialized light-focusing abilities. This advancement is poised to…
A Microscope for Everyone: Open-Source Optical Toolbox Delivers High-Resolution Images for Tiny Fraction of the Price
The open-source system from the 3D printer delivers high-resolution images like commercial microscopes at hundreds of times the price. Modern microscopes used for biological imaging…
Turning Lunar Dust Into Oxygen – And Using the Leftovers to 3D Print a Moon Base
British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed…
Move Over Plastic: Desktop 3D Printing in Metal and Ceramics
These spur gears – seen in the image above with a euro cent coin for scale – have been produced in stainless steel to a…
3D Printing a Miniature Magnetic Pump for $3.89
Design is the first demonstration of a magnetic, multi-material pump 3D printed all in one piece. A new miniature pump — compact, valveless, and operated…
In Response to the Critical Shortage, Researchers Create 3D-Printed Nasal Swab for COVID-19 Testing
In response to the critical shortage of nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Radiology at University of South Florida (USF)…
New Tool for Surgeons: 3D Bioprinted Heart
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Adam Feinberg and his team have created the first full-size 3D bioprinted human heart model using their Freeform Reversible Embedding of…
“Cold Spray” Technology: 3D-Printing Biomedical Parts With Supersonic Speed
Forget glue, screws, heat or other traditional bonding methods. A Cornell-led collaboration has developed a 3D printing technique that creates cellular metallic materials by smashing…