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New AI Method Fuses Expert Opinions to Map Lung Vessels With Calibrated Confidence

Quantifying how blood vessels remodel in diseased lungs has long been one of the most tedious bottlenecks in pulmonary research. Pathologists studying vascular changes associated w...

New Artery-on-a-Chip Technologies Advance Construction Strategies and Disease Modeling

Cardiovascular disease remains the world’s leading cause of death, and the arteries—dynamic tubes that constantly bend, stretch, pulse and respond to flowing blood—are where many o...

3D printing with ice creates complex structures without supports

Evaporative cooling in a vacuum freezes ultrathin water jets on contact, creating unsupported ice forms for tissue scaffolds and microfluidic channel molds.

Carimatec Uses 3D Printing to Speed Dental Aligners

Getting clear dental aligners means building a sequence of slightly different aligners, each based on how a specific patient’s teeth are expected to move. Before the clear plastic...

Veins Take the Lead: Landmark Study Reveals How Human Arteries and Veins Rebuild After Devastating Leg Trauma

When a high-energy accident shatters the bones and soft tissues of a lower leg, the large blood vessels threading through the wounded region are suddenly exposed to an oxygen-depri...

3D printing brings custom research instruments into the laboratory

Consumer-grade 3D printers can produce customized instruments for detecting bacteria, studying biofilms, and other biophysical research, reducing cost and dependence on commercial...

Miniature microprobe enables internal imaging of smaller blood vessels than ever before

A microprobe can navigate and image smaller arteries than previously possible, helping diagnose and plan treatments for vascular diseases The post Miniature microprobe enables inte...

3D printing programs drug-delivery microrobots to split and enter tighter spaces

Laser 3D printing programs hydrogel microrobots to travel intact, then split into smaller units that can enter narrow channels inside the body and spread a drug.

3D Printing in Veterinary Practice: Is It Useful?

In this VETgirl blog, discusses the use of 3D printing in the veterinary community, from educational tools that improve communication and procedural planning to practical devices d...

Hand-Sewn Suture Technique Achieves Coupler-Level Vessel Results in Head and Neck Rebuilds

Surgeons in Japan have developed a refined hand-sewing method for connecting blood vessels that they say delivers the safety benefits of a mechanical device without its drawbacks,...

Automated Simulations Reveal Blood Flow Effects of Aortic Grafts

When a surgeon replaces a section of the body’s largest artery with a tube of woven polyester, the operation is meant to be a definitive fix. For tens of thousands of people each y...

4D biofabrication turns flat hydrogels into complex tissue shapes

Inspired by kirigami, a new biofabrication technique programs cell-compatible hydrogels to fold into complex 3D shapes, opening possibilities for engineering realistic human tissue...

Multiscale computational modeling to quantify how spiral artery remodeling alters wall shear stress on placental villi

by Armita Najmi, Noelia Grande Gutiérrez Proper placental development is essential for a healthy pregnancy. It depends on the remodeling of the maternal uterine vasculature to mee...

Affordable handheld 3D ultrasound reconstruction system developed with visual positioning

Ultrasound imaging has always been medicine’s great equalizer—cheap, safe, portable, and free of ionizing radiation. But it has also remained stubbornly flat. Where computed tomogr...

Creating new 3D models to test drugs in pediatric sarcoma: A postdoc's recipe for research

The Great British Bake Off offers drama, baking tips and—for one viewer in South Carolina—inspiration for creating 3D models that can be used to test cancer drugs.

These pediatric wheelchairs are a fraction of the cost thanks to 3D printing

For decades, pediatric mobility device use has been constrained by high costs, insurance barriers, and the need for specialized manufacturing. Now, New Orleans nonprofit MakeGood,...

Untangling chromosomal and hormonal effects to make sex-specific endothelial OCT4 clinically actionable

The vascular biology community has just been handed both a discovery and a warning in a single package. In a Letter published on 12 February 2026 in the journal Angiogenesis, M. Vi...

New stent retriever advances reshape the future of acute stroke thrombectomy

A sweeping review published in the Journal of Neurology charts how a small mesh-like device known as the stent retriever has transformed the treatment of acute ischemic stroke, and...

Mapping cardiovascular progenitors in pig hearts identifies Midkine as neovascularization promoter

A new study tracking human stem-cell-derived cardiovascular progenitors inside injured pig hearts has identified a molecular signal that may help explain how transplanted cells pro...

Daniel Widrig Uses 3D Printing and Robotics to Create Objects That Feel Less Like Machines and More Like Strange Living...

Daniel Widrig is a London-based artist, architect, and designer whose work turns digital models into physical objects that look grown, eroded, stretched, or caught mid-transformati...

Smart Controller Turns Cardiovascular Models Into Reliable Digital Twins for Childhood Sepsis

A new calibration framework called the Embedded Feedback Controller drives mechanistic cardiovascular models to a unique, physiologically consistent solution and generates virtual...

3D-printed Martian mud homes look critical for life beyond Earth

Skovsporet 3D-Printed Student Housing / SAGA Space Architects

Skovsporet is a 3D-printed student housing development in Holstebro, Denmark. The 36 apartments are distributed across six low-rise clusters, forming a small student village in whi...

European Experts Unveil VAMP, a Structured Plan to Transform Newborn Vascular Access

European neonatal specialists have published the first ESPR recommendation, a structured Vascular Access Management Plan designed to standardize device choice and reduce complicati...