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Copper coating on 3D-printed plastic filters proposed as a pandemic fighter
In the ongoing fight against COVID-19, experts on microbiology and copper are recommending an expanded use of the metal to reduce the virus's spread. So might copper be incorporated into the construction of masks, the universally accepted virus-fighting personal item?...
Carnegie Mellon pioneers 3D printed sensor that detects COVID-19 antibodies in seconds
A new COVID-19 antibody detection device developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, capable of identifying the antibodies within 10 to 15 seconds, is now entering a trial stage with COVID patients. . The innovative system consists of a low-cost sensor...
3D printed nanoparticle biosensing platform detects SARS-CoV-2 antibodies within seconds
Pandemics caused by novel infectious agents like the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Zika, or Ebola virus seriously impact human health and lives while also overwhelming health care systems all over the world. Early detection and...
3D printing technology rises to the frontlines to fight against COVID-19
The prevalence of the highly infectious coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has caused massive health and socio-economic upheavals worldwide. Major slumps in industrial production due to stringent lockdown measures and export restrictions have led to severe logistical...
Eyeballs, asthmatics, and 3D-printed organs: New discoveries about COVID-19 abound
In general, the public’s interest in research related to COVID-19 is focused on a single issue: Is there a vaccine, and when is it going to be ready? It’s a massive question, of course. But it is not the only one that scientists and medical experts are asking. Every...
The SARS-CoV-2 giant you can touch: 3D printing makes it possible
If you can’t see it, it’s not there, right? Wrong! But if you look at it in this way, its mode of action becomes clear: The SARS-CoV-2 virus in 3D print – for non-scientists and pharmaceutical research. If the real virus were this big, it certainly could not have...
Innovation in a crisis—fixing the ventilator shortage with 3D printing
A dozen Boston area anesthesiology residents launched an eight-week hackathon hosted on GrabCAD.com to design a rapidly deployable, minimum viable mechanical ventilator for patients with COVID-19-related ventilator-dependent lung injury. . The CoVent-19 Challenge was...
‘We can get it done here’: African tech tackles coronavirus locally
By the time the virus hit Africa, where cases have risen relatively slowly, images of overwhelmed hospitals and stories of health workers strapped for protective gear had been streaming in for weeks. . Mehul Shah from Ultra Red Technologies, a 3D printing company in...
3D Printing in the Fight Against COVID-19 “The Citizen Supply Chain’’
UK researchers from Queen’s University Belfast are focused on how 3D printing can assist in serious healthcare issues, releasing the findings of their latest study in the recently published ‘ Additive Manufacturing Can Assist in the Fight Against COVID-19 and Other...
3D Printing and COVID-19, May 5, 2020 Update
Formlabs has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to 3D print adapters designed to convert bi-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) machines into ventilators. . What makes the adapter so significant, as discussed in...