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3D printing in healthcare

3/27/202639 min

3D printing is becoming an incredibly versatile modern tool - with scope to apply it to engineering, manufacturing, architecture and design challenges. And it's increasingly being used in ... healthcare.

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  7. Norman Swan· Host0:44

    3D printing keeps popping up in the news, from home manufacture of guns and weapons in the United States to artworks. There's scope in engineering, manufacturing, architecture, and design, and it could be used in healthcare. The ABC science unit's Carl Smith learned more when he toured the Herston Biofabrication Institute, which is a new addition to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.

  8. Mathilde Ducelle· Guest1:08

    [electronic music] 3D printing is a technology that is not very well-suited at making a lot of things that are exactly the same. But what it does very well is print and make one-off. So what that is useful for is to make devices that will fit you and

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