In a medical 3D printing breakthrough, the first US surgeries featuring a revolutionary spinal implant made from Evonik‘s VESTAKEEP® i4 3DF PEEK filament biomaterial were conducted earlier this month. Developed by Curiteva, a US-based...
As part of the BioStruct project, the Aachen-based medical technology innovation ecosystem is researching the further development of patient-specific implants. The goal: implants that can be resorbed by the body and are adapted to...
No two hearts beat alike. The size and shape of the the heart can vary from one person to the next. These differences can be particularly pronounced for people living with heart disease, as...
Huntsville, Alabama-based technology company Curiteva announces the first FDA 510(k) cleared 3D-printed PEEK implant, the Inspire Porous PEEK Cervical Interbody System with HAFUSE Technology. The Inspire platform is manufactured with a proprietary, patented Fused...
Nov. 21, 2022, Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH), a global medical technology leader, announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the Persona® OsseoTi® Keel Tibia for cementless knee...
In the FingerKIt project, the Fraunhofer IAPT, IKTS, ITEM, IWM and MEVIS are collaborating to enable for the first time a continuous automatable process chain in the manufacture of patient-specific implants from design through...
October 26, 2022, Carbon, a leading 3D printing technology company, announced that its developmental bioabsorbable elastomer platform has demonstrated biocompatibility in vivo, with all samples being designated as non-toxic and exhibiting tunable times for...
SI-Bone has announced that it has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) premarket clearance for its iFuse Bedrock Granite implant system (Granite)—which is designed to provide sacroiliac fusion and sacropelvic fixation as...
LimaCorporate uses 3D printing for “cementless” implants In 2005, hardly any company was thinking about using 3D printing for mass production. LimaCorporate was an exception. The Italian-based global orthopedics developer, which had just begun...
Researchers have developed a unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from bioreactors, offering the potential for high quality, wide-scale production of stem cells in Australia at a lower cost. Stem cells offer...
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