As 3D printing makes its way into a variety of industrial avenues, as well as medicine, researchers are looking at ways to use the technology to improve methods that are already considered progressive — such as antibiotic delivery implants — but offer a host of negative issues as well as the positives. Through the use of 3D printed discs, beads, and even catheters, researchers and experts from LSU and ExtrusionBot were able to obtain positive results using the new structures, as well as determining that with their level of biodegradability, patients would not have to go through additional surgeries. Read more about this progressive treatment possibility in the full article: http://3dprint.com/40612/3d-printed-chemo-delivery/


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