Bones

Calcium carbonate is an impressive material, in that it combines strength, light weight and porosity. Scientists have devised a new bacteria-based method of 3D-printing the substance, for uses such as bone repair and coral reef restoration.

For some time now, we've been hearing about scaffolding-like implants that encourage bone tissue or cartilage to grow back into areas where it's missing. Now, scientists have developed a method for more quickly and easily 3D-printing such implants.

Space travel is conducive to injuries. Now researchers from Dresden Technical University (TUD) have developed a 3D bioprinting method for use in space, creating new skin and bone tissue out of resources that might be available to astronauts.

If you've ever had a cast on an arm or leg, then you'll know how uncomfortable, awkward and inconvenient they can be. That's why the NovaCast was created. It's a 3D-printed cast which is custom-made for each patient as needed.

The APRICOT (Automated Pinbone Removal In Cod and WhiTefish) project set out in January, 2012 to find an automated solution that would keep fish processing in Scandinavia and has now developed a machine that achieves just that.

Jake Evill's Cortex concept modernizes the ancient concept of a splint by using 3D printing technology to create a fully-ventilated exoskeletal cast to help heal broken bones.

Researchers have used a CT scanner and a 3D printer to create a physical model of a live rat's skeleton.

A Dutch artist known for his self portraits has reproduced his own skeleton using cutting-edge technology.

Using 3D-ID software, forensic investigators can determine the gender and ancestry of a human skull.

Scientists at Cambridge University have built robots out of LEGO, to assist in their research into creating artificial bone.