3D printing is making strides across healthcare and pharmaceuticals, where once labor-intensive procedures are being accelerated, and with greater accuracy. One area of development is with personalized medicines.
Researchers have successfully developed high technology 3D printing and polymer injection molding to produce thousands of pieces of protective face shield components per day. These products are for health workers, in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Hon. Navdeep Bains, has announced an $8-million investment to 3D printing leader Equispheres through funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. Equispheres' Kevin Nicholds explains more
Set to launch in April 2019, the Paladin 3D printer provides an affordable and durable SLA 3D desktop printer designed for small businesses or for the home. Digital Journal was given the opportunity to review an advanced release of the device.
A titanium lower jaw generated by a 3D printer was transplanted into the face of an 83-year-old woman in June 2011 in the Netherlands, becoming a surgical first, according the doctors who performed the procedure, the BBC reported.
The Paladin SLA 3D printer unpacked. The printer uses stereolithography, whch is an additive manufacturing process that works by focusing an ultraviolet (UV) laser on to a vat of photopolymer resin.
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