The efforts will increase critical equipment as hospitals combat the coronavirus The U.S. military is 3D-printing face shields, designing reusable plastic N95 masks and sewing surgical masks to ...

Burbank Dental Laboratory has retooled and shifted to making 3D personal protective equipment (PPE) face masks for local hospitals, health care workers, using unique material, including filters used ...

Hospitals and medical facilities around the United States are reporting critical shortages of the protective equipment they need to keep their workers and patients safe, so some DIYers are coming up ...

Recently, the additive manufacturing industry entered the cosmetic and skincare space, with scientists leveraging new technologies to enhance their ability to create customized products. Here, we ...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (KABC) -- The community of Santa Clarita is coming together to help first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus emergency. It started with a father-and-son team and ...

AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB)–One size does not fit all. That’s how one group led by University at Buffalo Chair of biomedical engineering Dr. Albert Titus is approaching personal protective equipment.

Kamenya Omote, a shop in Tokyo, is selling 3D-printed masks that replicate people's real faces (all images courtesy of Shuhei Okawara/Kamenya Omote) As if 2020 wasn't weird enough, a Japanese company ...

There are tons of options nowadays when it comes to face masks, from disposables to KN95s to fun cloth numbers. However, many masks are one-size-fits all — and if you are more, um, cranially ...

Plenty of people across the country have gotten a little lax with masking over the past few months, thanks to loosened guidelines and increased vaccination. But the rise of the Omicron variant has ...

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