Surgeons will soon be able to plan heart operations using 3D models of patients’ organs with revolutionary software that recreates working versions of human body parts. The technology, which also ...

Wearing blue rubber gloves, Molly Dobrow reached into a metal vat of diluted sodium hydroxide and pulled out two dripping-wet models of human organs: a heart and a set of lungs. Made of Elastico, a ...

Harvard University researchers have bioengineered a three-dimensional model of a human left heart ventricle that could be used to study diseases, test drugs and develop patient-specific treatments for ...

Scientists are developing custom 3D-printed replicas of human hearts - in an effort to improve life-saving technology fitted in thousands of patients each year. The models mimic blood flow and ...

Surgeons carried out successful surgery on a baby ’s heart after practising on a 3D model of it. Pippa Fulton was born a month prematurely, weighing just 4.5lbs (2kg) and with several heart conditions ...

In recent years, several apps have been developed that allow 3D scanning of objects using the camera of a smartphone. With the iPhone application ' r3DPhoto ', it is possible to create a ...