WSU Researchers Use a 3D Printer to Make Bone-like Material

PULLMAN, Wash.—It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone.
And it came off an inkjet printer.
Washington State University researchers have used a 3D printer to create a bone-like material that can be used in orthopedic procedures, dental work, and to deliver medicine for ailments like osteoporosis. Paired with actual bone, it acts as a scaffold for new bone to grow on and ultimately dissolves with no apparent ill effects.

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[dayneoram]

I never needed 3D printed bone replacement.

But then I took an arrow to the knee.

[Arthur Rosser]

I was expecting to actually see the machine making something. It just kept sweeping over a box full of dust.

[Atomsk12]

Good thing you're not real then.

[roidroid]

can't do it in one pass.

need multiple passes.

[Karadjordje Trkulja]

Where is the bone!?

[Yanko Atanasov]

I don't normally print bones,

but when I do - it is with a bad-ass 3d printer

[BurritoBazooka]

I'm thinkng it's using the roller to first flatten the material, and then the machine shown at 0:55, judging by the warning labels, uses heat or laser energy to solidify or eliminate the powder in layers.

[Atomsk12]

Can it make me my own Mila Jovovich?

[brandon ung]

Just replace all your bones into metal and call it good

[thecadaver33]

Great, can this make me an arrow-proof kneecap replacement?



[ThexDynastxQueen]

Just alert me when I can download then print out a car.

[rerere284]

can't this be scaffolding for other stuff too? I know that one guy re-grew his finger with some pig skin turned into scaffolding, and that means the skin scaffolding re-grew bone too.