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3D Printing and Bioprinting Bones
3D printing and bioprinting to regenerate bone both are promising for the regeneration of bone tissue. It uses 3D printing to create acellular scaffolds or 3D bioprinting bio-inks that contain...
3D Bioprinting for Drug Discovery and Development
3D bioprinting is a relatively new technology that has the potential to revolutionize drug discovery and development. Here are some ways 3D bioprinting can help in this field: 1) Generating...
Additive Manufacturing in Dentistry
Dentistry seems to be the potential breakthrough industry to manifest many 3D printing enthusiasts’ dreams of mass customization, point of care delivery, and local manufacturing hub for dental...
Quality Control in Healthcare 3D Printing & Bioprinting
Check back soon for precise event timing! Apply to speak or sponsor event: info@3dheals.com Subscribe here to receive event emails. Moderator: Dr. Jenny Chen Dr. Jenny...
3D Printed Orthotics and Prosthetics
3D printing technology has brought significant advancements in the field of Orthotics and Prosthetics. Here are some ways in which 3D printing can benefit Orthotics and Prosthetics: 1)...
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in 3D Printing
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) can have a significant impact on healthcare 3D printing. Here are some ways AI and ML can be used to improve healthcare 3D printing: 1) Design...
Point of Care Additive Manufacturing
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Stem Cell Strategies for Biofabrication
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Biomaterials Bioinks for 3D Printing
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Interview with Frédéric Schuind, CEO, Swibrace & Spirecut
Prof. Frédéric Schuind is an orthopedic surgeon and professor with a career spanning several decades. He is also the Founder & CEO, Swibrace & Spirecut . He has held numerous...
Interview with Brett Carey: 3D Printed Orthoses
Dr. Brett Carey is the CEO of Kalo Multispeciality Group based in Kona, Hawaii. His clinic exclusively uses 3D-printed hand orthoses for all post-operative patients. Kalo has also performed...
3D printing at Point-of-CARE with Quality
Figure 1: Bedside 3D printing? (Image credit: Ultimaker) 3D printing at Point-of-Care (PoC) facilitates patient-specific patient care and adds an extra dimension to image-based diagnosis and...
Interview with Ruben Wauthle, CEO, Amnovis
Ruben Wauthle started his career at LayerWise in Belgium (now 3D Systems) in 2010 as Medical Application Engineer and obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2014 from KU Leuven on the topic...
3D Printed Drugs - Guide (Updated, 2023)
With advancements in 3D printing technology, material, and formulation developments, There is a definite increase in the number of research publications [Figure 1] and startups in the space. The...
Raphael Lichtnecker: Bioprinting at Puredyne, ViscoTec
Raphael Lichtnecker: I got my Master´s degree in Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering at Technical University Munich. Afterwards I started as Business Development Manager at ViscoTec where I...
Expert's Corner
3D printing at Point-of-CARE with Quality
3D printing at Point-of-Care (PoC) facilitates patient-specific patient care and adds an extra dimension to image-based diagnosis and treatment. The adoption of 3D technology in hospitals is really taking off in recent years. Still, with medical 3D printing as a relatively young technology, there are valid concerns (among regulators) about the quality of the medical devices produced at PoC, the challenges in controlling the 3D printing process, and the resulting risks for patients. A decent Quality Management System will make PoC facilities better and their 3D-printed medical devices safer and more effective. The applicable guidance documents about Point-of-Care 3D printing referenced in this paper are bundled together on Google Drive.
Pitch3D 2022: Newborns, Warriors, and The Changing World Order
In 2020, at the peak of the market, we wrote a blog on both the private and public companies in the healthcare 3D printing space. After two years of manias, panic, and crashes, a pandemic, and the start of a new war in Europe, there is plenty to talk about. We will split this market summary into two pieces, part one focusing on the private, early-stage startups (“Newborns” and “Worriers”), and part two focusing on the larger late-stage and public companies with significant stakes in healthcare and life sciences (“Unicorns” and “Winners”). For details about the categorization, please see our earlier post. Here we will also include highlights on fourteen 2022 Pitch3D startups and notable updates from the other thirty-plus startups Pitch3D has hosted since 2018.
3D-Printed Hand Orthoses for 98% of clinicians.
3D-printed hand orthoses fabrication is currently rare in hand therapy clinics. As outlined below, there are compelling reasons for therapy providers to consider 3D-printed hand orthoses over traditional methods of fabrication.
Importance of Patent Search for Regenerative Medicine Inventions
Researchers developing innovative technologies in biotechnology, such as neuromodulation, bioprinting, and tissue engineering, and in the life sciences, such as new drug development and regenerative medicine which encompasses therapies that repair, replace, or regenerate organs, tissues, cells, and genes, often find themselves questioning whether their innovations, besides making a difference in people’s lives, are worthy of patent protection. This is because patent protection can provide value to the company funding the research by preventing others from practicing the developed technology and creating business opportunities, such as licensing or selling the patented technology and receiving research grants. To determine if a technology should be the subject of a non-provisional (also referred to as a utility patent application), the researcher or company will be best served to engage a patent agent or attorney who will likely advise performing a patent search. Even though a patent search is optional, this article provides four reasons why it is important to perform a patent search.
Medical 3D Printing – An Indian Perspective on Point of Care Micro Labs
India has a vast segment of highly qualified doctors who deal with some of the most complex surgeries known across the world. Yet, with a population of over 1.3 Billion and over 1 Million people undergoing surgeries every year, they are highly short staffed, with a ratio of 1:1600 as opposed to WHO norm of 1:1000 with 80% in urban areas. This gives rise to need of innovation in processes and technology that can make surgeries faster, easier and more precise for the medical team. This allows medical personnel to cater to more patients in the same amount of time, with less chances of failure, thereby avoiding recurrence of the condition. One of the most effective ways to cater to this problem is to obtain dependable pre-operative information and customized tools to ensure the treatment is smooth and effective in the first attempt. Such a large problem statement, with a simple solution, utilizing the disruptive technology of Additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D Printing.
Streamlining Orthopedic Surgical Planning with AI
Total hip arthroplasties (THAs) that include patient-specific implants, guides and surgical plans have been rapidly increasing in frequency over the past decade. This increase is creating more demand from patients, and increasing pressures on clinicians and medical device companies to deliver and deploy their patient-specific products quickly and safely. In this context, anatomical data from MRI and CT scans can be used to create 3D models for 3D printed orthopedic cutting guides, implants, and pre-surgical plans. The Synopsys Simpleware group and the Corin Optimized Positioning System (OPS) group have been working together for over 10 years to develop and streamline their OPS workflow, which is designed to optimize stability, longevity, biomechanics, and patient outcomes for THAs over time. The result of this collaboration is a deeply integrated and customized solution for different stages of the OPS workflow, which has been deployed to over 20,000 patients, and has since evolved to include Machine Learning-based AI technologies. How, then, did this come together, and what does it tell us about the current state of optimizing patient-specific workflows? This blog serves to elaborate on our thought process regarding this integration.
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