3D printing

came down to 3D printing and robotic pets. I see that 3D printing has become bigger than what I thought it would become but as Tsuge has mentioned, it can be both good and and bad only depending on the hands that are using it. Some positive objectives that 3D printing has accomplished is how people can now print their medicine in their home only steps away from their bed or their couch. There is no need to drive all the way to the pharmacy if someone is feeling sick because they have a 3D…

Shortage of the organs and tissues has always been a critical medical problem. According to the data from Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, the patient waiting list for organs in US consists of more than 80,000 patients and many of them die waiting on their organ list. There are several approaches for addressing this problem like artificial organs, xenotransplantation, etc. But these have other limitations like expensive organ- transplant…

ROBOTICS Robotics have been around since the Third Century B.C. of early descriptions of Automata appearing in Lie Zi text of a mechanical engineer named Yan Shi who created a life-size, human-shaped figure f his mechanical handiwork. Due to their abilities to compute many tasks and as artificial intelligence increases. Western civilization, specifically, has been in love and terrified by the idea of human machines. In an unending search of humankind to figure out who we are; A question mostly…

The surgery would be successful in the sense of stability but most of the time the surgery was not aesthetically pleasing. Now with computer aided design and 3D printing, creating a successful graft has decreased surgery time and has increased satisfying results with strength and facial symmetry. Sadly, an issue with placing a graft using acrylic bone cement is when it cures there is an exothermic reaction which…

defects; it is required to protect the underlying brain, correct major aesthetic deformities or both (Pompili et al., 1998). Today, three-dimensional (3D) models of anatomical structures can be constructed based on anatomical information from scanning data coming from computerized tomography (CT). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is used to 3D modelling of soft tissues and computerized tomography (CT) for Hard tissues (i.e. bone) of the human body. The fact is face is a symmetrical…

research has produced tremendous medical breakthroughs and should not be stopped. Yes, animal testing has resulted in great medical discoveries and could be used to potentially discover more, however, new technological advances in medicine such as the 3D biomedical printer can eventually replace the need for animal testing and as a result of that cost of research will go down dramatically as well as animals will no longer suffer for no reason. There is absolutely no doubt that animal…

minutes, another name is added to that list. Three-dimensional printing is a manufacturing method in which objects are made by fusing or depositing materials—such as plastic, metal, ceramics, powders, liquids, or even living cells—in layers to produce an object. The idea of 3D printers is similar to that of inkjet printers, however, the end product differs in that a 3D object is produced. One very thought provoking idea is to utilize this printing technique to produce biological organs. Imagine…

contributes a greater amount of safe procedures performed by doctors. 3D holographic images are known commonly for their enhancement in sanitation and analysis (Leckart n. pag.). Doctors are able to perform surgery without worrying about unintentionally infected their patient during a procedure. Live 3D images complement today’s live 2D image abilities before constructing heart surgeries. Due to the precisions required for cardiac procedures, 3D images are used to provide a safe and sanitary…

Three dimensional organ printing has been done by making regular objects out of materials such as plastic or molten metals. Wake Forest University in North Carolina decided to take that one step further by being the first group of researchers to print out human tissue. Human tissue…

university. The university-led project prints tissues samples that imitates the functions of the human organs. But most experts believes that 3D printing is not an appropriate use for transplants. On second thoughts, they believe that printing strips or patches of tissues to mend damaged organs will be the next step. Many questions are beginning to rise about 3D printing organs. But the main questions that people are asking is “Will only the rich be able to afford…