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Biomaterials Frontier for Medical 3D Printing
The defining shift of 2026 is from printing structure to printing function, and from lab-stage novelty toward standardized, regulator-legible material systems. Biomaterials is moving from a...
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The material is the frontier now| The Lattice Brief (9/5/26)
This week: why the real frontier in 3D-printed biomaterials is regulatory legibility, not geometry; European neurosurgery quietly moves its printers in-house; a first-in-human 3D-printed cartilage...
Regulator-Legible Material Systems: The Real Frontier in 3D-Printed Biomaterials
For most of the past decade, the story of 3D printing in medicine was a story about shape. Patient-specific anatomy, impossible geometries, surgical guides tailored to a single body, frequently...
Metamaterial and 3D Printing
Metamaterials are one of the most quietly consequential ideas in materials science, and 3D printing is what turned them from theory into objects you can hold, implant, and build a company around....
Episode 125: Inside Technology Transfer At UCLA With Mark Wisniewski
Innovation is a chess game. The right move can turn an idea in a university lab into a company, a breakthrough, or even a treatment for patients. On this episode of The Lattice, we sit down with...
Getting paid is the hard part | The Lattice Brief (8/30/26):
This week: why clearing the FDA is not the same as getting paid for a 3D-printed stent, a world-first metamaterial bone prosthesis out of Madrid, fresh bioprinting and bone-repair research, and...
Better Isn't Billable: How a New (3D-Printed) Medical Device Actually Gets Reimbursed
A biodegradable, 3D-printed pigtail stent for gastric leaks can be a valuable teaching tool for medical 3D-printed device entrepreneurs. This mental exercise with a recent novel design shows the...
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Regulator-Legible Material Systems: The Real Frontier in 3D-Printed Biomaterials
For most of the past decade, the story of 3D printing in medicine was a story about shape. Patient-specific anatomy, impossible geometries, surgical guides tailored to a single body, frequently touted as "complexity for free". The printer's magic was that it could make forms that would be impossible or very expensive to make by mold injection. In 2026, the center of gravity has moved. The defining question is no longer "What shape can we print?" but rather "What material can we print, and will a regulator ever accept it?" That shift has a name worth adopting: the move toward regulator-legible material systems.
Metamaterial and 3D Printing
In a few of our late virtual events, our audience and speakers began mentioning the word "metamaterial." True, "meta" seems over-used in media lately. For example, Facebook even rebranded itself after this all-encompassing word, but few people truly understand it, let alone what "metamaterial" really is. This article attempts to clarify that confusion and its relationship to the universe of 3D printing. In short, "meta" frequently signifies going beyond traditional boundaries to look at a system or concept from a higher, more abstract perspective. Metamaterials are special materials engineered to have properties not typically found in nature. Unlike traditional materials like wood or metal, which have characteristics based on their atomic structure, metamaterials derive their unique properties from their design at a microscopic or nanoscopic level. Scientists create these materials by arranging small, often repeating structures (like tiny coils or patterns) in a specific way. This precise structure allows metamaterials to manipulate waves—like light, sound, or electromagnetic waves—in unusual ways.
Better Isn't Billable: How a New (3D-Printed) Medical Device Actually Gets Reimbursed
A biodegradable, 3D-printed pigtail stent for gastric leaks can be a valuable teaching tool for medical 3D-printed device entrepreneurs. This mental exercise with a recent novel design shows the reimbursement logic every device team should learn before they fall too deep in love with their own inventions. Medical device reimbursement in the United States often rewards factors other than clinical performance. A recent preprint makes the gap easy to see. It describes BRIDGE, a 3D-printed, biodegradable double-pigtail stent for draining gastric leaks after sleeve gastrectomy. The design is clever. Its lattice mid-section is built from a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS). It bends around a radius that is roughly seven times tighter than that of a commercial biliary stent, without kinking. It drains about twice the fluid. And because it is printed from a biodegradable resin, it is designed to dissolve on its own rather than be removed during a second endoscopy.1
What is Physical AI? - A Guide for Healthcare
Physical AI is artificial intelligence that can sense, reason, and act in the physical world through robots, devices, instruments, and automated systems. In healthcare, that means AI is no longer limited to software that analyzes records or images; it is also showing up in surgical systems, rehabilitation platforms, wearables, smart medical devices, hospital robots, and automated laboratory infrastructure. There are several motivations behind writing this guide: 1. The increasing number of Pitch3D startups is now deploying physical AI to build or defend their existing products. 2. An increasing number of incumbent AI giants, including leading companies like NVIDIA, or venture capital firms, believe the next phase of AI-driven growth will be from this category of technologies. In part one of this guide, we focus on general concepts and players in current healthcare and life science sectors.
Is Chairside 3D-Printed Crown Finally a Reality?
For years, "print a crown while the patient waits" has been more aspiration than clinical routine. Milling has dominated same-day restorative dentistry, and resin-based 3D printing has largely been confined to models, surgical guides, and temporaries. That balance appears to be shifting in light of the latest news in dental 3D printing. Across the first half of 2026, a cluster of regulatory clearances, material launches, and academic results suggests that permanent, chairside-printed restorations are moving from novelty to a real clinical option. Why is this such a big deal? The current permanent crown workflow involves at least two office visits and a minimum of two weeks of waiting time for the crown to be ready for placement. During the weeks between visits, patients often have to wear a clunky, essentially nonfunctional temporary crown. With chairside permanent crown availability, patients can potentially receive same-day treatment, avoiding additional trips to the dentist and the inconveniences of a temporary crown. So it is a huge deal. However, after some investigation, there appear to be real caveats that any dentist or patient should understand before assuming printed crowns can simply replace milled or sintered ones.
Navigating 2025: What’s Ahead for Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups
It is already midsummer, but if you missed the latest numbers focusing on early-stage healthcare investing, here are some highlights that could be relevant to rising entrepreneurs and fundraising startups in the deep tech, medtech, and biopharma space. The first quarter of 2025 marked a pivotal moment for the venture capital and healthcare startup landscape. As uncertainty continued to ripple through global financial markets, investors, founders, and analysts closely monitored funding trends, exit prospects, and innovation hotspots. Drawing on the latest data from leading industry reports—including the HSBC Healthcare Annual Report Q1 2025, PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, Carta’s VC Fund Performance Report, and Wilson Sonsini’s Entrepreneurs Report—we break down the most important takeaways for startups, investors, and ecosystem players. Please find the downloadable versions of these reports at the end of this summary "Reference" section.
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