For patients who need bone grafts, a 3D-printer could come to the rescue
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 17:01
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have 3-D-printed splints for babies’ airways, faux brains to study cortical folding — and now they’ve done it with bone. A team of researchers at Northwestern University has created a highly flexible artificial bone that helps speed up recovery and that can be easily manipulated by surgeons...