Tissues For Organ and Skin Repairs. The 3D bioprinting space is certainly beginning to get the attention of investors. There are now several companies with the funding needed to develop techniques which could one day lead to a major breakthrough in regenerative medicine. Today, Isis Innovation, the University of Oxford’s research commercialisation company, announced that OxSyBio Ltd., a spin-out from the University, has raised £1 million from IP Group plc to develop their proprietary 3D droplet printing technology. Professor Hagan Bayley’s group at the University’s Department of Chemistry are the ones who came up with this approach to 3d bioprinting. They used thousands of tiny droplets, coated with a film that mimics the external membrane of an actual living cell. The team then studded the membranes with protein pores, making them act just like simplified cells. The droplets, which OxSyBio prints, can transmit electrical pulses, like the ones that are used by living cells, to communicate in the human nervous system.
Man Compares His $42k Prosthetic Hand to a $50 3D Printed Cyborg Beast. Over the last several months, some of the more inspiring stories around 3D printing have had to do with the printing of prosthetic devices, particularly hands. From war torn Sudan, where 3D printing is making the lives of hundreds of injured children and young adults easier, to people here in the United States, who are saving significant amounts of money by 3D printing their own prosthetics, these stories certainly are eye openers. Today 3DUniverse did a story about a man named Jose Delgado Jr.
Jose was born without a left hand, and in his 53 years on this planet has had first hand experience with the various prosthetic devices available to him. Jeremy Simon of 3DUniverse.org decided to meet up with Jose, and print him out a Cyborg Beast prosthetic hand. Cyborg Beast Simon went into the meeting skeptical of how the 3D printed hand would stack up to a device which costs 840 times that of the Cyborg Beast, but carried on anyhow.
Extinct Lemur Ressurected by 3D Technology - Fabbaloo Blog - Fabbaloo. Scientists from the Stony Brook University Medical Center recently used 3D technology to reconstruct the skull of an extinct mammal. The Hadropithecus stenognathus is a species of giant lemur now extinct, with only two examples of skulls known to exist. The examples were in fact merely pieces of skulls. However, researchers noticed that at least some of the pieces fit together well, and concluded they may be able to use 3D scanning tech to help.
The pieces were scanned and then "virtually reconstructed" by determining how the pieces fit together. The result was a 3D model of the complete skull that is suitable for further research. What is not stated is the obvious, at least to us 3D fans: why not print the model as an object? Via NewsWise and EurekAlert. Scanning Service.
Bio-robotics.