UNSW develops new 3D printed bone implant - bringing personalized, biodegradable implants one step closer to reality.

While there are already a variety of implants that dispense medication within the body, most of them either can't be externally controlled, or they eventually have to be surgically removed. A new one, ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team, jointly led by Professors Jiyun Kim, Chaenyung Cha, and Myoung Hoon Song from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST, has unveiled the world’s ...

(Nanowerk News) Additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized many industries and holds the promise to affect many more in the not too distant future. While people are most familiar with the 3D ...

A magnesium-based alloy suitable for biodegradable implant applications is melted inductively using a high-frequency current.Image courtesy of LMPT/ETH Zurich On the heels of success with ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Every year, millions of people get permanent metal implants for broken bones, knowing they might need painful removal surgeries later. But what if those implants could just ...

Building on advancements in foldable ultra-thin flexible circuits, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tufts University have developed electronics that almost completely ...

Bio DG (San Diego) has developed a metal alloy that provides high strength when first implanted and then gradually erodes in a predictable and biocompatible manner. Designed for implantable medical ...