Invisible implant for clear vision

Cornea from the 3D printer

15-Oct-2025 - Damage to the cornea affects millions of people worldwide. Empa researchers are working on a transparent, biocompatible implant from the 3D printer. This allows defects to be repaired seamlessly and permanently. The project could now be started thanks to a generous donation from a ...

Affordable bioprinting: tissue at the touch of a button

Modified 3D printer from the electronics store prints living tissue

23-Sep-2024 - Researchers have now succeeded in modifying a simple 3D printer so that it can create biological structures at the touch of a button. This is an opportunity for small laboratories to conduct research in this area too. "Tissue engineering is a technology of the future," Benedikt Kaufmann is ...

UpNano joins MIT.nano Consortium

Provider of ultra-high resolution 3D printing becomes sustaining member of industry group

09-Nov-2022 - MIT.nano has announced that UpNano US Inc., a company that manufactures and supplies high-precision and high-resolution 3D printing instruments for academia and industry, has joined the MIT.nano Consortium. This engagement, initially planned for two years, will include locating one of UpNano’s ...

Triastek announces research collaboration with Lilly

Application of 3D printing technology in oral delivery of drugs

19-Jul-2022 - Triastek, Inc. announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company to leverage the advantages of 3D printing technology to enable precisely targeted and programmed release of drugs in specific regions of the GI tract. According to the agreement, the project will focus on the targeted release of ...

Lab supplies out of the 3D printer

LAUDA invests in Better Basics start-up

18-Mar-2021 - LAUDA will cooperate with Better Basics Laborbedarf GmbH (BBL). The Dresden-based company, founded in 2019, develops, manufactures and sells smart basic equipment for laboratories that simplifies the organization of laboratory workstations and supports laboratory employees in their daily work ...

How to Put Neurons into Cages

Using an acoustic bioprinting technology it was possible to develop multicellular nerve tissue

05-May-2020 - Using microscopically fine 3D printing technologies from TU Wien (Vienna) and sound waves used as tweezers at Stanford University (California), tiny networks of neurons have been created. Microscopically small cages can be produced at TU Wien (Vienna). Their grid openings are only a few ...

3D printing of silicone components

22-Aug-2019 - ETH spin-off Spectroplast has developed a method to make silicone products using a 3D printer. The young company now plans to bring to market customised medical products such as hearing aids, breast prosthesis for breast cancer patients and eventually even artificial heart valves. Their ultimate ...

"Micro-origami": Artificial blood vessels through 4D pressure and molecular self-organization

13-Jun-2019 - In the future, it may be possible to produce finely structured blood vessels by printing. The chemist and materials scientist Prof. Dr. Leonid Ionov and a research group at the University of Bayreuth are researching the basis for this. The aim: To structure thin polymer layers in such a way that ...

Merck Welcomes Ten New Startups to its Innovation Center

17-Jan-2019 - Merck announced the ten startups that will be joining the seventh intake of its Accelerator program at the Merck Innovation Center in Darmstadt. The teams come from nine different countries, making 2019 the most international intake in the Merck Accelerator’s history. They were chosen from a ...

Precisely fitting bone implants from the printer

07-Dec-2018 - Cancerous tumors, infections or bad fractures can make it necessary to surgically remove bones and insert implants in their place. In collaboration with European partners, Fraunhofer researchers have now developed a technique with which bone implants that are precisely fitting, stable and ...