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5 Body Parts Scientists Can 3-D Print
Kidneys Team: Wake Forest Institute For Regenerative Medicine How It's Made: A 3-D bioprinter deposits multiple types of kidney cells—cultivated from cells taken by a biopsy—while simultaneously...
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5 Body Parts Scientists Can 3-D Print
Dek ArrayTeam: Cornell UniversityHow it's made: Bioengineers take a 3-D scan of a child's ear, design a seven-part mold in the SolidWorks CAD program, and print the pieces. The mold is injected with a...
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How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue
The NovoGen MMX Bioprinter Photograph by Timothy Hogan Step 1: Engineers load one syringe with a bio-ink (A) made up of spheroids that each contain tens of thousands of parenchymal liver cells and a...
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What It Takes To 3-D Print A Building
Echoviren Pavilion At Night Type A Machines We've seen some neat plans for 3-D printed architecture. But completed buildings? Those are a little more rare. Which makes this new project, conceived and...
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NASA Tests Largest 3-D Printed Rocket Part Ever
3-D printed complex subscale injector A 3-D printed rocket part blazes to life during a hot-fire test designed to explore how well large rocket engine components withstand temperatures up to 6,000...
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This Insanely Complex 3-D Printed Room Will Make Your Jaw Drop
This room, conceived and created by architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger, might not be the world's first 3-D printed structure. But the design, which they call Digital Grotesque, is...
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Big Pic: 3-D Printed Space Gloves Rule The World
Spacewalk Replica ESA-Anneke Le Floc'h When you're a famous astronaut, anything you touch basically turns to space gold. And then people make replicas of the things that you've touched, because those,...
View ArticleWatch A 3-D Printer Make A Pizza
This summer we heard about a 3-D printer for food developed with NASA funding, but we didn't have much to look at in the way of a prototype. Now, lo and behold, the printer has shown up at SXSW Eco,...
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Check This Out: A 3-D Printer Made From E-Waste
The circle of electronic life: useless printer scraps become a way to print scraps of other things! Resourceful 33-year-old inventor Kodjo Afate Gnikou, of the West African country Togo, has created...
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Lasers 3-D Print A Home For Bacteria
Staphylococcus aureus Janice Haney Carr/CDC Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are building a zoo. You can't visit its inhabitants, or look inside, but it's filled with cages where...
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How 3-D Printers Make Movie Monsters Scarier
A 3-D Printed Spider Robot Screenshot from 'T8 the Bio Inspired 3D Printed Spider Octopod Robot' by Robugtix on YouTube This time of year always makes me crave a good horror movie. If you're a fan,...
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Vitamin B2 Can Be Used To 3-D Print Medical Implants
A B2 Scaffold For 3-D Printing Regen. Med. 8(6), 725–738 (2013) Riboflavin, or vitamin B2, a vitamin commonly found in cottage cheese, green veggies and meat, could be used to 3-D print medical...
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UK Police Seize 3-D Printer Parts Instead Of 3-D-Printed Gun
3-D Printer Parts Compared On the left, the parts confiscated by Manchester police. On the right, parts found in other 3-D printers. Gigaom The United Kingdom has restricted gun ownership since a 1996...
View Article'3-D Painting' Sprays Metal To Repair Or Rebuild Machines [Video]
GE is showing off a new machine that sprays high-velocity metal powders at broken machines, repairing damage in a few minutes without having to weld replacement pieces. The technique, which they're...
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A Pen That 3-D Prints Bone Right Onto Patients
The BioPen University of Wollongong One of the greatest promises of 3-D printing is that we'll one day be able to print organs on-demand. Need a new liver? There it is, at the push of a...
View ArticlePhotoshop Now Supports 3-D Printing
Good news, 3-D printing enthusiasts: Adobe thinks your weird little hobby could actually be a thing! The company's adding support for 3-D modeling files to its Photoshop software, letting users...
View Article3-D Printed Flowers, For People Incapable Of Growing Things
Hey, nerds: instead of tending a garden, which takes forever, consider this project, wherein you 3-D print an inflatable flower. It might even be the world's first inflatable, 3-D printed thing. The...
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This Full-Color 3-D Printer Sounds Too Good To Be True. Is It?
ProDesk3D botObjects Back in May, a startup called botObjects unveiled what seemed like a stunning consumer gadget: the world's first full-color, desktop 3-D printer, the ProDesk 3D. The idea--an...
View ArticleThis Snarky Robot Is Really Good At Air Hockey
As an experiment, tinkerer Jose Julio hacked the components of a 3-D printer and made this glorious machine instead: a robotic, Terminator-visioned air-hockey player that looks pretty darn good at...
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Watch A Robot 3-D Print With Metal
Metal, despite being one of the most ubiquitous building materials, isn't something we see in 3-D printing too often. (Seriously: we've got pizza before small-scale, consumer steel printing.) But...
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