When a Dutch woman with a rare condition needed a new skull, surgeons 3D-printed one for her and put it on her brain like a cap. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides ...

A 3D printer helped save the life of a New Jersey man whose skull was crumbling. The Navy veteran hopes others can learn from his battle. Greg Morrison, 63, first suffered a brain bleed two years ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

For years, the battered 9,500-year-old Jericho Skull has been one of the British Museum’s most chilling exhibits – as well as its oldest portrait. Decorated with plaster in a Neolithic ritual ...

Pamela decided to look for an alternative surgery that was less invasive. [Michael] created a 3D print of her skull and meningioma from her MRIs. He used InVesalius, free software designed to ...

A large portion of his skull, roughly the surface area of a hand, was falling apart and would have to be replaced. And the replacement bone implant would be produced by a 3D printer. Morrison ...

The precursor to this achievement was a similar patching done last year, where 75% of a patient's skull was replaced with a 3D-printed implant made of polyetherketoneketone (PEKK, a thermoplastic).

The tumor had to come out — but removing it would also mean removing part of Patches’ skull. So, in a North American veterinary first, according to an announcement from OVC, Oblak 3D-printed h ...