Three months ago, surgeons in Holland implanted a transparent plastic skull in a woman whose skull has never stopped growing. Incredibly, the rare bone disease that was wrecking her vision and ...

A baby girl born without part of her skull has had lifesaving 'innovative' surgery that involved 3D printing technology. The youngster, from Rzeszow in Poland, has a congenital defect that meant ...

Everybody is talking about 3D printing and how this technology is changing the medical industry. Now, with the help of open source software tools and a couple of common desktop 3D printers, you could ...

[Michael Balzer] shows us that you are your own best advocate when it comes to medical care – having the ability to print models of your own tumors is a bonus. [Michael’s] wife, Pamela, had been ...

The ability to design and print replacement body parts that are customized to an individual's needs is revolutionizing medicine. This year alone, doctors have printed tubes that stabilized a child's ...

Look very closely at the reconstruction of the skull of newly discovered hominin ancestor Homo naledi. Can you tell that it's been 3D printed? According to John Hawks, a palaeoanthropologist on the ...