3D PRINTING PUSHES MEDICAL BOUNDARIES


    Queensland students are set be at the forefront of using 3D printing to create human body parts, with a world-first course to be offered in Brisbane.

The international masters degree in biofabrication will be jointly offered by the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Wollongong, the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands and the University of Würzburg in Germany.

QUT Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation biofabrication research leader Dietmar W Hutmacher said the applications of 3D technology could eventually end the need for organ donations.