Nate Yamane’s is an 18-month-old baby with a rare disease which caused the Childs pulmonary arteries to narrow down to dangerous levels, causing the blood to barely pass through them. In such cases the doctor’s use stets which open up the passage in the veins and the blood can pass through, however, in this case, the child’s tiny pulmonary artery had narrowed to just 9 millimetres. Stents which were available could not be used in this case hence there was a need for a custom made solution

3D printing was recently considered as one of the top 10 technologies of the decade, this announcement itself talks a lot the kind of buzz around it. It has come a long way since 1986 when it the first patent was filed for Stereolithography, but we who follow the technology firmly believe that we are not even closer to finding its true potential

The 3D Printed Bridge is designed by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in collaboration with Enrico Dini, a pioneer in giant 3D-printing techniques

Whoever penned the phrase “ Sky is the limit” had no clue that one day it would be easier to reach to the sky and beyond, than reaching the depth of our planets oceans. There are many places inside our oceans that we have not been able to explore yet, but things could soon change with some help with 3d printing