Every year 74,000 people in the UK die from coronary artery disease. This may be about to change.to a new method that allows doctors to operate through a keyhole incision using 3D glasses.

Researchers have 3D-printed a heart using a patient’s cells, providing hope that the technique could be used to heal hearts or engineer new ones for transplants.

A 3D-printed heart valve, made using a biocompatible material called polyglycerol dodecanedioate, was created at Emory and Georgia Tech labs and presented earlier this month.

From birth, Samantha has had four surgeries for heart disease. Her last surgery was aided by a 3D-printed replica of her heart, providing a detailed understanding of her heart’s anatomy. The surgery’s ...

But getting these from the lab to the clinic has been tough because traditional 3D-printed hydrogels tend to either break when stretched, crack under pressure or are too stiff to mold around tissues. ...

While 3D printing for organs is still developing, the technology is driving other life-saving innovations. For instance, it is being used to make exact replicas of organs like the heart so that ...

MIT engineers are 3D printing replicas of patients’ hearts in an attempt to improve replacement valve procedures for those living with heart disease. Scientists are creating custom robotic ...

Miniature-sized heart chambers called ventricles have been 3D printed with live human heart muscle cells and shown to beat on their own for at least three months.

Newly developed custom 3D-printed heart replicas more likely to resemble human heart, reports a new study. No two hearts beat alike. The size and shape of the the heart can vary from one person to ...

Stanford researchers design blood vessels for 3D printed hearts - developing a faster, more precise way to model and print ...

As well as the fast-paced new "Free Flow" acrobatics we mentioned in our initial impressions, Kingdom Hearts 3D incorporates all-new "Reality Shift" techniques that make use of the 3DS touch screen.

Keyhole surgery in 3D. Thursday, 3 May 2001 Cathy Johnson - ABC Science Online. ... When repairing an aneurism (or swelling) in the aorta (the main artery leaving the heart), ...