Granta Design has announced the release of a new software solution to overcome the substantial data challenges of developing additively-manufactured parts.

A biomedical engineering team based at the University of Sydney has developed a new low cost method for producing bone replacement implants for severely damaged skulls.

Exciting start-up TactoTek spun out of VTT in Finland has just come out of stealth mode.

Optomec has announced strong sales gains for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014.

A specialised 3D printing process, using human stem cells, could pave the way to purpose-built replacement organs for patients, eliminating the need for organ donation, immune suppression and the problem of transplant rejection.

IDTechEx attended the 3D Printed Electronics conference in Eindhoven hosted by Jakajima. This is perhaps the first conference on the subject. Here, IDTechEx provides a summary of its learnings.

A University of Toronto lab is partnering with an international NGO and a Ugandan hospital to use 3-D scanning and printing to speed the process of creating and fitting sockets for artificial limbs.

Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings.

Researchers report an initial study showing that DNA strands can also act as a glue to hold together 3-D-printed materials that could someday be used to grow tissues and organs in the lab.

A 3D printed model of a patient's heart has been used by surgeons to help plan how to fix the heart.

Researchers have made a medical breakthrough using 3D printing to create cartilage designed for tracheal repair or replacement.

The 3D printing industry is enormously diverse with printers ranging from the smallest $350 home 3D printers to the largest $1.5m industrial machines.

Students have built Singapore's first urban solar electric car with an innovative 3D-printed body shell that has 150 parts

IDTechEx Research recently attended a 3D Printing Materials Conference in Maastricht. Here we share what we learned.

Layering cement was an extremely difficult task- it required extensive tuning of the printer on a programming level, as well as using exact quantities for the cement mix.