For the many people waiting for transplants, 3D-printed organs can't come soon enough. Researchers have been making strides towards developing the technology that would make it possible to simply ...

Imagine this: 3D-printed body parts that are printed directly in the body. Sounds far out, right? But new research from an interdisciplinary team of scientists has created a bio-ink designed for ...

Kim Joon, a commissioned researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), who developed the harmless bio-ink. Courtesy of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) A South ...

Researchers at the University of Wollongong have created a pen that uses 3D printing technology and bio ink to "draw" over sections of damaged bone. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is ...

Nature has an extraordinary knack for producing composite materials that are simultaneously light and strong, porous and rigid – like mollusk shells or bone. But producing such materials in a lab or ...