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Paris shoppers experience ECCO custom silicone midsoles designed and 3D printed onsite Consumer Products

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Visitors to the interactive, experiential “Geek Mais Chic” exhibition at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, a premium shopping mall in Paris, found themselves at the intersection of technology and fashion. They became the first to experience the “just-for-me” benefits of a footwear customization collaboration between Dow, a global leader in silicone elastomer science, innovation and service, and renowned Danish shoe brand ECCO.

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Optomec introduces new LENS CS 600 and CS 800 metal 3D printers 3D Printer Hardware

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Optomec, a specialist in metal additive manufacturing, has announced the launch of two new Directed Energy Deposition systems, the LENS CS 600 and CS 800 Controlled Atmosphere (CA). The new systems, which expand upon Optomec’s LENS series, were developed with the aim of maximizing the process’ build envelope while reducing the machine’s chamber volume and overall footprint.

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Functional bioprinted kidney tubules to be used for drug testing and improved dialysis Bioprinting

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Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D. is leading some of the most advanced and yet very real progress in 3D bioprinting. Unlike others, her team is not promising 3D bioprinted organs for transplants any time soon but nevertheless her research does focus on the body’s most complex biostructures, such as kidneys. In this latest study, Prof. Lewis and her team working within the Wyss Institute’s 3D Organ Engineering Initiative that she co-leads (and in collaboration with the Roche Innovation Center Basel in Switzerland), focused on renal reabsorption outside the human body, and specifically on proximal tubules.