Can 3-D Printing Produce Lung and Liver Tissue for Transplants?
New technique creates working models—with a little help from grocery-store food coloring-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Flexible circuits for 3D printing
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) A research cooperation between the University of Hamburg and DESY has developed a process suitable for 3D printing that can be used to produce transparent and mechanically flexible electronic circuits. The tech...
Industrial 3D printing goes skateboarding
(Michigan Technological University) Plastic pulled from the waste stream can find new use with the Gigabot X, an open source industrial 3D printer. A team from Michigan Tech shows how three Gigabot-printed sporting goods -- skateboard decks, kayak pa...
New 3-D printing approach makes cell-scale lattice structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A new way of making scaffolding for biological cultures could make it possible to grow cells that are highly uniform in shape and size, and potentially with certain functions. The new approach uses an extremely...
How 3-D Printing Could Break into the Building Industry
Imagine a single trained operator making a bridge, home or barracks-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com