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Madrid's Gregorio Maranon designed and 3D-printed a titanium metamaterial prosthesis to avoid amputation in a sarcoma patient.https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/08/15/madrid-hospital-creates-first-bone-metamaterial-prosthesis-prevents-leg-amputation

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 12h

The University of Mississippi's PharmE3D lab and Colorcon are building an AI database for active drug ingredients with suitable excipients to create 3D-printed medicines more efficiently. www.voxelmatters.com/university-of-…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FDA changed one word: "animal" became "nonclinical." What it means for NAMs, bioprinting and biotools, in this week's Lattice Brief. 3dheals.com/did-fda-just...

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Did FDA just increased the biotools market | The Lattice Brief (9/27/26)

Explore how the FDA's new rules impact Biotools and animal-free testing in pharmaceutical development and research.

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Silicone suits the body. So why is it stuck in healthcare 3D printing? 3dadept.com/why-silicone-3d-printin…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Printed microscaffolds regrew cartilage in living animals for the first time. Using BIO INX's DEGRAD INX resin, a TU Wien-led team regenerated rabbit cartilage to about 91% of native thickness. bioinx.com/news/bio-inx-material-en…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Technion-led team bioprinted a soft-tissue flap - muscle and fat, threaded with a vascular network - complete with a printed arteriovenous loop surgeons could connect directly to a patient's blood supply. doi.org/10.1016/j.celbio.2026.100385

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Kumovis team is back - now making the implants, not just the printers. www.voxelmatters.com/kumovis-founde…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AMPLANK, from University of Twente and Radboudumc, is a patient-specific #3dprinted implant for ankle cartilage damage - a less invasive alternative www.utwente.nl/en/techmed/news/over…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A bone scaffold that heals the gap and reports on it. 3D-printed scaffolds with built-in sensors regenerated critical-size bone defects and tracked healing in an animal model. doi.org/10.1063/5.0295886

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Print a blood vessel you can actually suture. A UC San Diego team 3D-prints patient-specific vascular grafts with an AI-tuned bioink, built for low-cost microsurgery training. doi.org/10.1002/smll.75497

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Full-arch intraoral scans vs 3D-printed dental models: the printed models held up within clinically acceptable limits. www.cureus.com/articles/451080-accu…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TE Connectivity automates catheter-shaft jacketing via 3D printing - new geometries, same performance. 3dprintingindustry.com/news/te-conn…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A tissue expander that inflates itself, no needles. 3dprint.com/331164/3d-printing-news…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

VCU undergraduate Jazlyn Lopez Silva is refining a polymer 3D-printing material to be safe for implantable devices, with fibroblast testing as the next step - a look at early-stage academic work on implant biomaterials. sl1nk.com/fdq6mac

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Realigning the top of the spine with about 70% less force. A 3D-printed expandable titanium wedge spacer eased atlantoaxial (C1-C2) reduction in a patient-specific test model. Preclinical. link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bioprinted muscle that lines itself up. A fibrin-based bioink prints skeletal-muscle filaments that self-align, with no sacrificial polymer and no second gelation bath.

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week in The Lattice Brief: an AI-for-materials model with more downloads than #DeepSeek that still can't help with bioink and cartilage #bioprinting on @ISS_CASIS. 3dheals.com/ai-for-materials-has-a-…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA + Phase3D: in-situ inspection of 50,000+ metal-AM layers for 'born-qualified' parts. QA lessons for medical AM. 3dprintingindustry.com/news/phase3d…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A Penn State/Johns Hopkins team used aspiration-assisted bioprinting of miRNA-programmed stem-cell spheroids to regenerate vascularized bone, achieving ~91% closure of critical-size skull defects in mice, with vessel-like structures doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2026.178521

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How Singapore General Hospital built a point-of-care virtual-surgical-planning and 3D printing program - run in-house under a full medical-device quality system. 3dadept.com/virtual-surgical-planni…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Erik Boelen draws the distinction that trips up most medical 3D printing teams: MDR vs. ISO 13485 Miss it, and you build the wrong system for the wrong goal. 3dheals.com/episode-127-... #MDR #ISO13485 #MedicalDevices

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Erik Boelen on watching patient-specific implants go from a pitch nobody was buying to something the biggest companies now embrace. Watch the full episode: 3dheals.com/episode-127-... #PersonalizedMedicine #3DPrinting #MedicalImplants

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Erik Boelen on why quality management for medical 3D printing gets branded as bureaucracy, and the one change that flips it. Watch the full episode: 3dheals.com/episode-127-... #MedicalDevices #3DPrinting #QualityManagement

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bioprinting's path to the clinic runs through regulation, not just science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioeng…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Researchers used one-step DLP 3D printing to pack both 5-FU and curcumin into a single dissolving microneedle patch for localized skin-cancer therapy - over 95% insertion efficiency and controlled, staggered release. Formulation-stage; biology still to come. doi.org/10.1002/adhm.71620

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI plus 3D-bioprinted glioblastoma models flagged two approved drugs - carboplatin and memantine - that beat standard temozolomide under ultrasound. A New Approach Methodology doing an animal study's job. Read the full article: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0354981

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Full-arch intraoral scans vs 3D-printed dental models: the printed models held up within clinically acceptable limits. www.cureus.com/articles/451080-accu…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bioprinted patch for congenital diaphragmatic hernia - cells shielded by microscaffolds. (Biofabrication, via PubMed) doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/ae9599

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Israel's first full 3D-printed chest cage: a custom PEKK implant rebuilds a patient's chest wall. www.voxelmatters.com/clalit-beilins…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Volumetric bioprinting can now trigger light-responsive proteins and optogenetic circuits deep inside centimeter-scale hydrogels - remote control of biology, not just structure. Read more: doi.org/10.1002/adma.74563

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A smectic liquid-crystal-elastomer ink switches molecular alignment mid-print, so a single filament can be programmed to stretch or shrink on heating. Actuation, decided at the slicer. www.plasticstoday.com/medical/3d-pr…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🧬 Meet our speaker: Dr. Scott Taylor Director of Product Engineering at Poly-Med 📅 Biomaterials Frontier | Sept 10, 2026 | Free webinar 🔗 Register: 3dheals.com/biomaterials-frontier #Biomaterials #Bioprinting #AbsorbablePolymers #MedicalDevices #3DPrinting #ASTM

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🧬 BIOMATERIALS FRONTIER — Sept 10, 2026. Biomaterials are moving from an afterthought to the regulated, investment-grade core of 3D-printed medicine — soft bioresins, bioactive ceramics, and titanium lattices, all at once. Free to attend. Register at: 3dheals.com/biomaterials-frontier

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe cleared ISO 9001:2015 with zero non-conformities - the quality bar that lets technical ceramics enter regulated sectors including... 3dprintingindustry.com/news/sinto-a…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Walter Reed's 3D MAC earns FDA clearance for a cranial plate - the first cleared implant from a point-of-care institution. www.voxelmatters.com/3d-systems-ena…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

TOM: 1,200 open-source, zero-patent 3D-printed assistive-tech designs: 3dadept.com/1200-solutions-zero-pat…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In medical 3D printing, the frontier isn't the printer — it's the material. Biomaterials Frontier is now on demand (FREE): true human collagen, AI-designed materials, 4D-printed scaffolds & a live debate on animal testing. 🎥 3dheals.com/biomaterials...

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Biomaterials Frontier for Medical 3D Printing

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Earnings from 3D Systems, Prodways and Align point to healthcare as additive manufacturing's strongest end market - 3D Systems' Med Tech up 20%+ and Align at record revenue. 3dprint.com/330136/3d-printing-fina…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Scaffold-free, 4D-biofabricated implants that ossify into real bone with marrow - and scale in a bioreactor toward human-sized constructs. A translational step for bone regeneration.

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From a 1904 curiosity to implants you can print. #Metamaterials took a century to go from "light bent the wrong way" to #auxetic #lattices that flex like bone. A short history of the idea reshaping #3Dprinted medicine 👇 3dheals.com/metamaterial-and-3d-pri…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

PharmaTher's new PERSONALIZ3D pairs telehealth with pharmaceutical 3D printing for compounded medications www.newsfilecorp.com/release/309111…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A new 3D-printable rubber is up to 15x tougher and 3x more fatigue-resistant than comparable elastomers - durability for anything meant to flex inside the body for years. newatlas.com/3d-printing/elastic-po…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Brett Carey shares data showing 98% of clinicians who tried 3D printed hand orthoses preferred them, and what that means for the future of custom splinting. 3dheals.com/3d-printed-hand-orthose…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Axtra3D and Keystone's KeyPrint brand bring KeySplint Hard Clear, a biocompatible resin, to the Lumia X1 - the unglamorous, biocompatibility-qualified material work that actually reaches chairs and clinics. 3dprint.com/330174/3d-printing-news…

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎙 Meet our moderator: Craig Rosenblum, President of Himed, will be guiding the conversation across all three material tracks. 📅 Biomaterials Frontier | Sept 10, 2026 | Free webinar 🔗 Register: 3dheals.com/biomaterials-frontier #Biomaterials #Bioceramics #CalciumPhosphate #3Dprinting

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🧬 Meet our speaker: Ebrahim Yarali, a researcher at MERLN (Maastricht University), joins us to discuss stimuli-responsive materials for tissue regeneration. 📅 Biomaterials Frontier | Sept 10, 2026 | Free webinar 🔗 Register: 3dheals.com/biomaterials-frontier #metamateirals #3DPrinting

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Chris LeCastillo discusses turning medical imaging data into 3D printed anatomical models for surgical planning and education. 3dheals.com/interview-with-chris-le…

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