Tag: 3-D printing

  • Nation & World

    Size a concern when replacing heart valves

    Getting the perfect-size artificial heart valve without ever actually looking at the patient’s heart was a challenge … until now. Researchers at the Wyss at Harvard University have created a 3-D printing workflow that allows cardiologists to evaluate how different valve sizes will interact with each patient’s unique anatomy

    7 minutes
    Clogged valve
  • Nation & World

    Creating piece of mind

    A graduate student, who had a baseball-sized brain tumor, was curious to see what his brain looked like before the tumor was removed. This led him to colleagues who collaborated on a new 3-D printing technique.

    7 minutes
    Brain model
  • Nation & World

    The first fully 3-D-printed heart-on-a-chip

    A new approach to manufacturing organs-on-chips developed by Harvard researchers could cut the length and cost of clinical trials significantly.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Youngsters find learning never slows down at the Ed Portal

    As part of the first-ever Summer Explorations program at the Harvard Ed Portal, students enriched their learning experience. The program helps halt summer learning loss, which many experts say is a key step in closing the achievement gap.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The first autonomous, entirely soft robot

    Developed by a team of Harvard researchers, the first autonomous, entirely soft robot is powered by a chemical reaction controlled by microfluidics. The 3-D-printed “octobot” has no electronics.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New professor for SEAS, Wyss

    Jennifer A. Lewis, an internationally recognized leader in 3-D printing and biomimetic materials, has been appointed as the first Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and as a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

    4 minutes