Engineers and doctors 3D printed this custom-made splint that currently holds open the airway of a six-week-old infant and will be gradually absorbed into the body over time. Image via University of ...

A Michigan baby’s life was saved by the insertion of a 3-D printed trachea at two months old. The newborn was diagnosed with tracheobronchomalacia, a condition in which the airways collapse, not ...

A baby with a rare condition will get to go home for the first time thanks to a 3D-printed airway splint that is helping him breathe on his own. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

The technology is still relatively new, but 3D printing is already changing lives and industries — NPR reports on the case of Garrett Peterson, a 16 month-old baby with a defective windpipe condition ...

The University plans to take its 3D pringing initiatives one step further. The University has signed a license agreement with Materialise, a 3D printing and software company headquartered in Belgium, ...

A computer software concept has been developed that will enable clinicians with no experience in Computer Aided Design (CAD) to design and make custom-made 3D printed wrist splints for rheumatoid ...

University of Michigan researchers successfully implanted a 3-D airway splint in three infants with a life-threatening condition.--Courtesy of University of Michigan As 3-D printing picks up steam ...

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Two babies who couldn't breathe have been fitted with a revolutionary new 'throat splint' made on a 3D printer. Both Garrett Peterson, 18 months, from Utah, and Kaiba Gionfriddo, two, from Ohio, were ...

Medical researchers printed a 3-D splint that saved the life of an infant born with severe tracheobronchomalacia, a birth defect that causes the airway to collapse. While similar surgeries have been ...