Scientists are exploring that futuristic vision by using special 3-D printers to make living body parts. Called bioprinters, these machines use human cells as “ink.” A standard 3-D printer ...

Printing human spare parts with a 3D printer remains a distant goal, but even today, 3D printing is utilised in both drug development and medicine. A research group at the polymer chemistry unit of ...

Scientists speed up drug discovery with ReJI 3D bioprinting technology from Newcastle University's Jetbio - producing human-like tissue.

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than ...

MIT engineers 3D print multidirectional muscle tissue that flexes like the human iris - opening new paths for biohybrid ...

Scientists have developed a coffee machine-sized 3D bioprinter that produces human-like tissue in a move they hope could ...

The field of therapeutic cloning has long sought to provide a way to create replacement organs and tissues from a patient’s own cells ... is the printing of a fully functioning human heart ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich created a humanlike robotic hand using new 3D printing technology to create more sophisticated prosthetics. More from ...