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Dr. Antonio Bernardo Receives GEI Award

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

New York – he was held on December 9 at the Star Room of the restaurant Le Cirque in Manhattan breakfast organized by GEI in honor of Dr. Antonio Bernardo, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Laboratory for Innovative Surgery Microsurgery of the skull Weill Cornell Medical College. The GEI, Italian Representatives Group, for years combines the most authoritative representatives of Italian companies in America, and this time wanted to reward with “GEI…

STEM program being pioneered in Michigan by Grass Lake elementary students

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

GRASS LAKE, MI – Joey Cabana placed two wires into pegs on a circuit board. After some code tweaking, a small, blue light began to glow, seemingly in sync with the excitement that lit up the 10-year-old’s eyes. This LED light experiment is part of George Long Elementary School’s latest program focused on STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math subjects. STEM teacher Mike Arbuckle has brought these science and engineering-focused programs into George Long classrooms. Arbuckle…

Sumter Students Use 3D Printer to Create Prosthetic Hands

Posted on February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

Sumter, SC (WLTX) — In just a few hours, students at Alice Drive Middle School in Sumter are changing strangers lives forever. The STEM Certified school was granted a 3D printer last year. Rather than use it to make items for themselves to enjoy, Library Media Specialist Elma Strong chose to partner with the nonprofit E-Nable and start making prosthetic hands. “When I first heard about it, it just gives you the feeling, a great…

Virtual reality, 3D printing among innovations changing medical treatment

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

Michael Peirone, a fourth-year biomedical engineering student at the University of Victoria, displays a 3D printed hand that engineers have produced for amputees in developing countries, during the inaugural B.C. Tech Summit in Vancouver, B.C., on January 18, 2016. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press) VANCOUVER — Virtual reality could be the next instrument in a hospital’s arsenal of cost-fighting tools as nurse teams demo a surgery simulator that makes training feel like a video…

A Glimpse Into The Future Of 3D Printing In Sports

Posted on February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

3D printing is fast becoming an invaluable tool within the sports industry, with a rapidly growing range of applications. A host of top sports manufacturers have seen the technology’s potential. Adidas has recently begun trialling it for a new breed of running shoe, and Nike has been granted a major patent for footwear production. Now, a team of three engineers from the University of Bristol in the UK have developed a new 3D printing technique,…

BioArchitects announces FDA approval of 3D printed titanium cranial plate implants

Posted on February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

Brazil and U.S. based company BioArchitects recently announced the approval of their customized 3D printed titanium cranial/craniofacial plate implants by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The patient specific cranial/craniofacial titanium implants, which are the first of their kind in the United States, are made using Swedish additive manufacturing company Arcam AB’s Electron Beam Melting (EBM) technology. The technology allows for the implants to be custom designed for each patient using a a strong,…

How the Detroit Public Library is staying relevant to kids in the 21st century

Posted on February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

From a teen hangout spot featuring a makerspace to creative writing workshops for pre-teens, the Detroit Public Library offers a variety of programs that are relevant to 21st century kids. Stacks and stacks of books. Musty, winding corridors. The librarian, with watchful eye, shushing you. All are common images associated with the library to be sure, but they are far from accurate these days. If you’re a teen, the Detroit Public Library (DPL) can be…

Can Physicists Prove to Engineers That 3D-Printed Metal Parts Are Safe?

Posted on February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

There’s no denying that 3D printing is a fast and effective way to build new objects, but most engineers are taking tentative steps to its mass adoption because the results aren’t proven to be truly robust. Now, physicists hope to convince them once and for all. The most common form of 3D printing for real-world engineering applications is selective laser melting. The process sees a fine layer of metallic powder spread over a moveable platform….

Cutting-edge 3D printing technology

Posted on February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

BioArchitects gets FDA approval for a pioneer 3D printed titanium cranial plate produced with Arcam’s additive manufacturing technology. New York – BioArchitects officials announced the 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the company’s 3D printed patient specific titanium cranial/craniofacial plate implant. Designed for the repair of defects in the non-loadbearing bones of the head and face, each custom designed plate is permanently attached to the skull and/or face with self-tapping titanium…

How 3D printing is revolutionising medicine

Posted on February 6, 2016 by robertkakos

At the moment, 3D printing is used for dental implants, prosthesis, hip implants, simple vessel repair and skin grafts A 3D printed human hand. 3D printing is currently used in dental implants, prosthesis, hip implants, replacing a missing piece of skull bone, simple vessel and skin grafts. Dubai: The next big thing in medicine is 3D printing, which is helping revolutionise the health sector and boost people’s health prospects. For example, 3D printing will enable…

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