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What’s Next In Additive Manufacturing

July 15, 2021

By TJ McCue is a researcher and writer who works in tech and advanced manufacturing.

The exciting thing about “What’s Next” in additive manufacturing is that there is no shortage of exciting perspectives, big opportunities, or growth in AM, of new products, new advances, and new resea

Achieving Sustainability With Additive Manufacturing

July 14, 2021

By TJ McCue is a researcher and writer who works in tech and advanced manufacturing.

If you had to put two experts in a room about how additive manufacturing is opening new ways to make parts and products efficiently and more sustainably (less waste), ASME did it. They invited two of

Innovation and Additive Manufacturing

July 09, 2021

By TJ McCue is a researcher and writer who works in tech and advanced manufacturing.

Innovation is often defined as something new, perhaps invented, although not always. Scholars, corporations, and government agencies have their own definitions often centered on greater effectiveness

All-new AM Tech Forum Offers “Crash Course” in the Latest 3D Printing Technology, June 17

April 29, 2021

By ASME News

ASME hosts virtual event featuring up to 30 new product demonstrations and best-in-class AM Innovation Awards

What About Prototyping?

April 08, 2021

By Lauralyn McDaniel, ASME

With a group of technologies that was referred to as rapid prototyping in its earliest days, there doesn’t seem to be much discussion about prototyping. Is it still a thing?

Inaugural AM Medical Virtual Summit Draws an Impressive Audience

June 24, 2020

By ASME News

ASME’s inaugural AM Medical Virtual Summit, held on May 27, 2020, brought together engineers, clinicians, technology vendors, and industry leaders in an immersive virtual event experience focused on m

J&J Places a Big Bet on 3D Printing

May 20, 2020

By Alan S. Brown

Johnson & Johnson's Neutrogena MaskiD allows consumers to map their face and decide on skin treatments. J&J then 3D prints a customized mask with embedded treatments to fit their face.

3D Printing Overcoming Biocompatibility Challenge

February 20, 2020

By Lina Zeldovich

When the 35-year old NJ resident Chris Cahill woke up from a two-months-long coma caused by a brain injury, he was in for some bad news. The infected frontal lobe of his skull had to be replaced.

Bone Repair with 3D Painted Ceramics

February 14, 2020

By Mark Crawford

Hyperelastic Bone from Dimension Inx is a ceramic biomaterial that is easily printed on most extrusion 3D printers, using a process called 3D painting, and is difficult to distinguish from natural bon

3D Printing in Hostile Environments

January 30, 2020

By Nancy S. Giges

Soldiers and astronauts prove it’s possible to rapidly 3D print and bioprint medical supplies and devices in austere environments.

3D Printing Living Skin with Blood Vessels

January 22, 2020

By Nancy S. Giges

Pankaj Karande and his Rensselaer Polytechnic team developed a way to 3D print living skin complete with blood vessels. Next, they are planning to create a universal skin graft using CRISPR.

Capturing Blood Cells to Isolate Tumor Cells

January 09, 2020

By Nancy S. Giges

Bioengineers at Georgia Tech developed a revolutionary device to diagnose and monitor cancer by using a 3D-printed trap that isolates tumor cells.

Medical 3D Printing Innovators Sought as Speakers for AM Medical Event

September 27, 2019

By ASME

ASME is looking for innovators from the manufacturing and bioengineering industries who would like the opportunity to be a presenter at one of the sessions next May during AM Medical: Additive Manufac

ASME to Launch New AM Medical Industry Event in 2020

June 14, 2019

By ASME

ASME is launching a new industry event spanning the Society’s strategic technology areas of advanced manufacturing and bioengineering – AM Medical: Additive Manufacturing & 3D Innovations – that is in

Manufacturing Technology for 3D-printed Medical and Dental Devices Outpaces Clinical Applications

June 12, 2019

By ASME

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is leading the charge to move this technology collaboration forward and will host AM Medical: Additive Manufacturing & 3D Innovations on May 27-28

Video: Designing Medical Devices with Additive Manufacturing

January 03, 2017

By ASME

Additive manufacturing offers a cost-effective and customizable option for medical device manufacturing. In this video filmed at ASME’s AM3D 2016, Robert Cohen,VP and GM,R&D, for Stryker Orthopedics,