Organ models that more accurately capture finer details could reduce surgical error and lead to personalized implants.
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Glass is produced from sand, is easy to recycle, and can be used to make concrete without any complex processing.
Using recycled plastic to wire planes could reduce their emissions while cutting down on waste from the 3-D printing industry.
The world needs to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030. We won’t achieve this goal without using new technology to patrol and preserve marine protected areas.
The rocket engines that lauched Apollo 11 towards the moon had 5,600 parts each. 3D-printed equivalents have just 40.
The shipping sector’s emissions are equivalent to some industrial countries: here’s some innovative ways to help reduce them.
Most sporting equipment is designed with typical able-bodied athletes in mind, whereas custom equipment to meet a particular Paralympian’s needs can be expensive. 3D printing offers a third way.
How do you turn your 3D plastic printer into a food printer? You just print the required parts.
Printing organs could reduce the need for human donor organs. And 3D printed organs using a patient’s own cells would increase successful organ transplants by reducing the risk of rejection.
Nigeria could close the skills gap in the manufacturing sector by including 3D printing in the curriculum of engineering programmes.
A new report from the GovLab and the French Development Agency (AFD) examines how development practitioners are experimenting with emerging forms of technology to advance development goals.
A biologist explains what proteins do in viruses, how they interact with human cells, how the vaccine delivers mRNA into the cell and how antibodies protect us.
Consumers can turn plastic waste into valuable products at minimal cost using the open source technologies associated with DRAM – distributed recycling and additive manufacturing.
A cutting edge new research project is developing Lego-like bricks made from biomaterials to replace bone fragments in shattered limbs.
New manufacturing processes will revolutionise the way we take our medicines.
Some of the worst health performers in recent weeks have been ‘First World’.
Designers, engineers, makers and doctors worldwide have used 3D printing to produce products such as face shields, face masks, ventilator components, hands-free door openers and nasal swabs.
The rush to make personal protective equipment like facemasks and face shields using 3D printers shows that the technology can help circumvent global supply chain disruptions.
Powerful owls need old, hollowed-out trees to nest in, but humans keep chopping them down. Now, designers have partnered up with ecologists to build them high tech artificial nests.
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University
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Former Academic Research Fellow, Khalifa University
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Senior lecturer, University of Wollongong
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Head of Research Compute Services, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor in Additive Manufacturing Management, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Research Engineer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law; Director Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Managament (CIPPM), Bournemouth University, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield
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VC Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Environmental Materials, Brunel University London
