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3D printing technique differentiates stem cells into heart cells
A new study has shown that 3D printing can be used to control stem cell differentiation into embryoid bodies that replicate heart cells. . Scientists report that they have printed heart cells using additive manufacturing to control stem cell differentiation in...
Could Martian concrete lay foundation for better 3D printing?
NASA’s Mars One strategy is to robotically construct a human settlement on Mars starting in 2025 with humans arriving five years later. . A team at Northwestern University has created a model of what the structures on the planet could look like. NASA states the...
Automated Production Planning for 3D Printing Factories
Researchers from the University of Valladolid in Spain discuss ways to improve efficiency and organization in 3D printing, releasing the details of their study in the recently published ‘ Production planning in 3D printing factories .’ . As 3D printing facilities...
Researchers Develop Method to Correct Defects in 3D-Printed Materials
Additive manufacturing can produce parts with intricate shapes and minimal waste, offering excellent potential to redefine the development of metallic components. When 3D printing metallic parts, Argonne scientists found a correlation between temperatures at the...
3D printing and injection moulding combined for stronger parts and quicker builds
Injection moulding offers high speed, efficient manufacturing, while 3D printing is great for rapid prototyping, customisation and complex structures. What if the two could be combined? . A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Lowell has achieved just that...
These 3D printed tiles are helping restore devastated coral reefs
Terracotta ceramics have been used for thousands of years, but a particularly 21st-century application gives the material an entirely new purpose. Marine scientists and architects from the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU)...
Case Study: Better Research Prototypes with 3D Printing
Affordable, versatile resin 3D printers let research engineers experiment on printed prototypes that look and act more like a final product. . When researchers at Italy’s SensibiLab were testing their latest wearable biosensor technology, comfort was critical. A big,...
3D nanometer-thin membrane borrows from biology
Mimicking the structure of the kidney, a team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have created a three-dimensional nanometer (nm)-thin membrane that breaks the permeance-selectivity trade-off...
Light Helps Pump Life into Heart Muscle
Although it can be difficult to get heart muscle cells to propagate in large numbers, a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has found a way to use 3D printing and light-induced excitation to create a living heart pump that has broad implications in...