Watch this new device print using sound waves innovation

August 31, 2018

Harvard scientists delevop a printing technique that could impact a slew of industries, from biopharmaceuticals to food and cosmetics.

Ryan Truby named as 2018 Schmidt Science Fellow

April 23, 2018

3D-printed sensors provide feedback about objects held by an artificial hand..

Robotic fingers get touchy-feely

March 8, 2018

At Harvard University, bioengineers are growing parts of functioning kidneys in small chips using a form of 3D printing. Jennifer Lewis' lab is doing this to learn how kidneys function and explore the possible therapeutic applications of the mini-kidneys-in-a-chip. Roland Pease visits the team at work.

Lewis Bioteam featured on BBC

December 21, 2017

... At Harvard University, bioengineers are growing parts of functioning kidneys in small chips using a form of 3D printing. Jennifer Lewis' lab is doing this to learn how kidneys function and explore the possible therapeutic applications of the mini-kidneys-in-a-chip. Roland Pease visits the team at work.

Lewis Bioprinting Team wins the 2017 Lush Science Prize

December 1, 2017

The Lush Prize winners for 2017 have been announced! Every year, we honor some of the most progressive work in eliminating animal testing, particularly in the area of toxicology research, with the Lush Prize. This annual event awards a £250,000 (about $330,000 USD) prize fund to scientists, campaigners and young researchers across five categories.

Get Ready for 3-D Printed Everything

August 29, 2017

Today it's mostly prototypes and plastic trinkets. But additive manufacturing - aka 3-D printing - is poised to produce everything from airplane parts and auto bodies to sneaker soles and human organs.

Harvard College student combines art, science, and public service

May 12, 2017

On the walls of Mather House hangs a painting by one of its residents. Julia Grotto ’17 has layered acrylic paint onto paper, transforming the exterior of the House’s Brutalist architecture in an intricate play of light and shadow.

Voxel8: 3D printing mixes materials

April 18, 2017

The machine sitting on the counter of a lab in Massachusetts is the size and shape of an ordinary desktop printer, but it looks like it has been crossed with a juke box. There's no place for paper, and the moving arm beneath the transparent orange cover doesn't pluck out a record for the turntable. Instead, it contains a pair of dispensing heads: one that extrudes a thin layer of thermoplastic from a spool, and another that deposits silver that will become a conductive wire. Both heads move back and forth across a plate and slowly build up a 3D object, layer by layer.

The Octobot is selected by Popular Science as one of “the 10 best science images, videos, and visualizations of the year"

March 29, 2017

Soft robots—ones made entirely out of squishy materials—are about to take over. They're theoretically safer and more resilient than metallic mechanoids, but scientists haven't quite figured out practical ways to make every part of a robot mushy. Octobot is a step (or eight) in the right direction: it's entirely soft, powered by chemical reactions that push fluid and gas into its limbs.

Printing cellular structures in a controllable way

March 1, 2017

Scientists have developed a highly porous ceramic foam ink containing a mixture of alumina particles, water and air that can be patterned in 3D to design constructs similar to natural structures and which possess superior mechanical properties.

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