3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 13hResearchers bioprinted a dentin-pulp model whose stiffer zones drive mineralization while softer zones grow vessel-like channels - a tunable test bed for regenerative dentistry, accepted manuscript in Biofabrication.https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/aea937 010
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Europe's bioprinting future may hinge on standards, not just science. EU Commission researchers and CEN-CENELEC argue clear standards and regulation are the gating step to safe clinical bioprinting. doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2026.08.0… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 09/10/2026UltiMaker + Bioactivx: an animal-free, 3D-printed wound-care implant clears Singapore's HSA, with US/EU/ASEAN filings pending. www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 08/10/2026TOM: 1,200 open-source, zero-patent 3D-printed assistive-tech designs: 3dadept.com/1200-solutions-zero-pat… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A 3D-printed cookie made from plastic waste. www.voxelmatters.com/nasa-backed-re… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Scaffold-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. 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 06/10/2026$22.5M to print orthotics, prosthetics, and DME faster. pulse2.com/hike-medical-raises-22-5… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Bioprinting's path to the clinic runs through regulation, not just science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioeng… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Walter 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… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#China is #3Dprinting more of everything. Is that a problem? Tell us what you think #TheBigThing #LatticeBrief 3dheals.com/china-is-pri... 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 04/10/2026NASA + Phase3D: in-situ inspection of 50,000+ metal-AM layers for 'born-qualified' parts. QA lessons for medical AM. 3dprintingindustry.com/news/phase3d… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Earnings 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… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Roboze and Tor Vergata University of Rome kick off a 3-year materials collaboration on advanced PEEK-based thermoplastics and AM filaments 3druck.com/en/research/roboze-and-t… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A 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… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026India is funding home-grown 3D-printed bone grafts. indianmasterminds.com/news/3d-print… 001
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Madrid'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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 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-… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Silicone suits the body. So why is it stuck in healthcare 3D printing? 3dadept.com/why-silicone-3d-printin… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Printed 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… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Kumovis team is back - now making the implants, not just the printers. www.voxelmatters.com/kumovis-founde… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AMPLANK, 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… 010
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Print 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 001
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Full-arch intraoral scans vs 3D-printed dental models: the printed models held up within clinically acceptable limits. www.cureus.com/articles/451080-accu… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 24/09/2026TE Connectivity automates catheter-shaft jacketing via 3D printing - new geometries, same performance. 3dprintingindustry.com/news/te-conn… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A tissue expander that inflates itself, no needles. 3dprint.com/331164/3d-printing-news… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 22/09/2026VCU 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Realigning 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… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Bioprinted 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. 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This 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-… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 20/09/2026NASA + Phase3D: in-situ inspection of 50,000+ metal-AM layers for 'born-qualified' parts. QA lessons for medical AM. 3dprintingindustry.com/news/phase3d… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A 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 011
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How 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… 011
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Erik 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Erik 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Erik 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Bioprinting's path to the clinic runs through regulation, not just science: www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioeng… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Researchers 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 17/09/2026AI 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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Full-arch intraoral scans vs 3D-printed dental models: the printed models held up within clinically acceptable limits. www.cureus.com/articles/451080-accu… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bioprinted patch for congenital diaphragmatic hernia - cells shielded by microscaffolds. (Biofabrication, via PubMed) doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/ae9599 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Israel's first full 3D-printed chest cage: a custom PEKK implant rebuilds a patient's chest wall. www.voxelmatters.com/clalit-beilins… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Volumetric 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 012
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A 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… 020
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 000
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 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Sinto 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… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Walter 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… 000
3DHEALS @3dheals.bsky.social · 11/09/2026TOM: 1,200 open-source, zero-patent 3D-printed assistive-tech designs: 3dadept.com/1200-solutions-zero-pat… 001