Improvements: diagram of the 3D-printed peristaltic vacuum pump showing the pair of notches and a close-up of one of the rollers. (Courtesy: Luis Fernando Velásquez-García et al) A tiny 3D-printed ...

(Nanowerk News) Mass spectrometers are extremely precise chemical analyzers that have many applications, from evaluating the safety of drinking water to detecting toxins in a patient’s blood. But ...

image: To make microfluidic pumps more accessible to the scientific community, SUTD researchers developed a highly-customisable, 3D-printed peristaltic pump kit, where users from around the world can ...

There are no treatments for aortic stenosis, a heart valve problem afflicting as many as a fifth of people over 65. The only solution is to modify the affected valve by implanting a prosthetic device ...

Engineers developed a procedure to 3D print a soft and flexible replica of a patient's heart. These models could help doctors tailor treatments, such as aortic valves, to an individual patient. No two ...

Lobe pumps are perhaps most popularly known for their use in Rootes-type superchargers, but they can pump water, too. [Let’s Print] demonstrates this ably with a 3D-printed design that can pump with ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The control of fluids at microscopic scales is fundamental to numerous technologies, from medical diagnostics to water purification. Traditionally, moving small volumes of liquid ...

MIT engineers have developed 3D-printed hearts that are the same size, shape and pump the same blood volume as the original — and are hopeful they can be a significant innovation in cardiology. “All ...

To publicly demonstrate the powerful and as-yet-untapped capabilities of 3D printing, Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, a principal research scientist at MIT, had his team use it to make a miniature ...

For all but the most experienced gardeners and botanists, taking care of the soil around one’s plants can seem like an unsolvable mystery. Not only does soil need the correct amount of nutrients for ...