A prosthetic skull was created using a 3D printer and successfully implanted in a patient in Connecticut, U.S. An image of the area of the brain that needed replacing was captured on a 3D CT scan ...

We've been able to aid the body's own repair of damaged bones for a relatively long time, but now we're ready to use 3D-printing to completely replace damaged bone. Earlier this week, 75% of a ...

It continued for 10 months, until doctors were able to replace the missing piece of his skull with a 3D-printed piece of plastic. He said it's helped he put the incident behind him.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique 3D-printed transparent skull implant for mice that provides an opportunity to watch activity of the entire brain surface in real time ...

This year alone, doctors have printed tubes that stabilized a child's collapsed windpipe and they've installed the first ever 3D printed vertebra in a 12-year-old boy.

Dave Mazierski spent the holiday break focused on an un-seasonal task: printing 3D models of bat-eared fox skulls. Mazierski, a vertebrate palaeontologist and associate professor of biomedical ...

The researchers behind the printed tissue described their accomplishment in a paper published Feb. 1 in the journal Cell Stem Cell. They hope it will complement other models of the human brain ...

A group of researchers working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have created the first 3D-printed human brain tissue that is actually functional. The group says it hopes that ...