Just published! The latest #TheLattice #podcast with Jim West III, MS Associate Director at BioTools Innovator Jim has been on both sides of the table, as an entrepreneur and as an investor (imagine reviewing thousands of BioTools pitches over three years, and a multiple of investor conversations later). Does it make sense to invest in life-science tools when the exit is almost always an acquisition, not an IPO? What should biotools founders focus on to hit a home run? This episode is for everyone. Show notes, audio, video: 3dheals.com/episode-128-biot…

#China is #3Dprinting more of everything. Is that a problem? Tell us what you think #TheBigThing #LatticeBrief 3dheals.com/china-is-printin…

Episode #129 | Additive Manufacturing Needs Policy To Reach Patients with Dr. Naomi Nathan youtu.be/LptSySm25XM?si=db1_… via @YouTube

What should #Biotools #Lifescience #tools startup do to prepare for an e... youtu.be/62iCc4mLdJ8?si=qzBj… via @YouTube

How #Biotools Innovator selects top 15% #startups to pitch youtu.be/e6yuUBgyMw0?si=0MkK… via @YouTube

FDA changed one word: "animal" became "nonclinical." What it means for NAMs, bioprinting and biotools, in this week's Lattice Brief. 3dheals.com/did-fda-just-inc…

A 3D-printed cookie made from plastic waste. voxelmatters.com/nasa-backed…

Listening to "Episode #128 | Biotools Can Beat Moonshots with Jim West" at buzzsprout.com/1015072/episo…

A hospital printed a metamaterial bone implant in-house, and saved a leg. Madrid's Gregorio Maranon designed and 3D-printed a titanium metamaterial prosthesis to avoid amputation in a sarcoma patient.euronews.com/health/2026/08/…

The University of Mississippi's PharmE3D lab and Colorcon are building an AI database that pairs active drug ingredients with suitable excipients, aiming to help pharmacies 3D-print personalized medicines more efficiently. voxelmatters.com/university-…

A custom 3D-printed ankle implant aims to spare healthy bone. AMPLANK, from University of Twente and Radboudumc, is a patient-specific implant for ankle cartilage damage - a less invasive alternative to fusion or total replacement. utwente.nl/en/techmed/news/o…

The Kumovis team is back - now making the implants, not just the printers. voxelmatters.com/kumovis-fou… #PEEK #CranialImplant

Printed microscaffolds regrew cartilage in living animals for the first time. Using BIO INX's DEGRAD INX resin, a TU Wien-led team regenerated rabbit cartilage to about 91% of native thickness. bioinx.com/news/bio-inx-mate…

Silicone suits the body. So why is it stuck in healthcare 3D printing? 3dadept.com/why-silicone-3d-…

A materials company is buying the scanner company: Graphy is taking control of dental-imaging maker Ray (about $34.8M) to push its clear-aligner materials across Ray's roughly 70-country installed base. finance.biggo.com/news/d4420…

Researchers replaced the hollow-fiber bundles in artificial lungs with 3D-printed triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) membranes. doi.org/10.1002/adma.74361

This week in The Lattice Brief: an AI-for-materials model with more downloads than #DeepSeek that still can't help a bioink, an HSA clearance for a 3D-printed implant, 3 new bioprinting papers, and cartilage #bioprinting on @ISS_CASIS. 3dheals.com/ai-for-materials…

Erik Boelen draws the distinction that trips up most medical 3D printing teams: MDR vs. ISO 13485 Miss it, and you build the wrong system for the wrong goal. 3dheals.com/episode-127-lean… #MDR #ISO13485 #MedicalDevices

Erik Boelen on watching patient-specific implants go from a pitch nobody was buying to something the biggest companies now embrace. Episode 127 of The Lattice Podcast— Lean Compliance for Medical 3D Printing with Erik Boelen. Watch the full episode: 3dheals.com/episode-127-lean… #PersonalizedMedicine #3DPrinting #MedicalImplants