COVID-19 Articles

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...

3D printing technology rises to the frontlines to fight against COVID-19

Aug 19, 2020 | 3D News, 3D Trends, COVID-19, Manufacturing and Supply Chain

The prevalence of the highly infectious coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has caused massive health and socio-economic...

Eyeballs, asthmatics, and 3D-printed organs: New discoveries about COVID-19 abound

Aug 10, 2020 | 3D News, Bioprinting, COVID-19, Medical

In general, the public’s interest in research related to COVID-19 is focused on a single issue: Is there a vaccine,...

The SARS-CoV-2 giant you can touch: 3D printing makes it possible

Aug 5, 2020 | 3D Models, COVID-19, Medical

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...

As 3D printing of protective gear ramps up, a free mask designed in Seattle is the first of its kind to get federal approval

by David | Apr 19, 2020 | 3D Models, COVID-19, Medical, People

Onetime Microsoft executive Jonathan Roberts knows that not all 3D-printed personal protective equipment being...

Nuo 3D Printed Mask

by David | Apr 15, 2020 | Companies, COVID-19, Medical

The studio hopes to bring their most recent project to life with the help of a Kickstarter campaign which is focused on a more public approach that looks at air quality and pollution. While the masks they are working on with medical professionals provide a case for productions that respond rapidly in times of emergency, the public approach aims to provide a long term strategy that can deliver on comfort, customization, and style. The latter aims for a higher-end approach to address fundamental problems of existing masks while also looking at design through the lens of fashion. Each mask is reusable, washable and paired with replaceable filters, and can be labeled with customized messages or printed in different colors depending on your style of choice.