In recent years, the applications for 3D printing in healthcare have been expanding into the limitless. Once reserved primarily for prototyping, the technology has quickly proliferated in the life sciences – with applications that range from personalized surgical implants, scaffolding and tissue generation.
The 3D printing market in healthcare will reach $4 billion by 2018, according to a report from British market research firm Visiongain. The most well-known use of 3D printing may be Organovo, the publicly traded San Diego company that likens cells to ink in a 3D printing process that builds live human tissue.
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