{"id":1155,"date":"2021-06-24T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:36:17","slug":"focus-on-innovation-corals-in-3d-printing-am-nus-this-could-be-a-future-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/2021\/06\/24\/focus-on-innovation-corals-in-3d-printing-am-nus-this-could-be-a-future-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Innovation! Corals in 3D printing? AM.NUS \u2014 This could be a future reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Corals and human implants \u2014 what do they have in common? While seemingly unrelated to the layman, the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>NUS Centre of Additive Manufacturing (AM.NUS)<\/strong><\/span> sees a novel way to 3D-print medical and advanced human implants using cultured corals as a base material. AM.NUS has signed an International Technology Development Agreement with Taiwan-based <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Popeye Marine Biotechnology Ltd.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> (Popeye)<\/span> in December 2020 to collaborate in this area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1_jqS5GqVCFbuNSWviQToFUA-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1156 aligncenter\" width=\"878\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1_jqS5GqVCFbuNSWviQToFUA-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1_jqS5GqVCFbuNSWviQToFUA.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Why corals?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Coral is an important high-quality ceramic biomaterial used in medical applications. It possesses high biocompatibility and a natural interconnected pore structure that promotes the inward growth of cells. The future of bone implants will no longer need to be donated human bones, animal bones, synthetic ceramic materials or even titanium alloys. This collaboration is not only pushing the limits of bone development in humans, it will also revolutionise the use of medical materials.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Popeye is currently the world\u2019s first marine biodiversity coral cultivation technology company with medical research, development, production and technical support. Popeye provides NUS with advanced materials for experimental use, to 3D print high quality implants and supports, as well as evaluate the potential of the material in tissue engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Pushing new frontiers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Despite the limitations encountered due to COVID-19 the past year, the two parties pushed forward strongly in their cooperation, by leveraging on the world class facilities, expertise and advanced capabilities of AM.NUS. The key technological strengths possessed by NUS span from bio-printing, to development of materials and 3D printing technologies for medical use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">To reach AM.NUS please email: <a href=\"mailto:am.nus@nus.edu.sg\" style=\"color: #000000;\">am.nus@nus.edu.sg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corals and human implants \u2014 what do they have in common? While seemingly unrelated to the layman, the NUS Centre of Additive Manufacturing (AM.NUS) sees a novel way to 3D-print medical and advanced human implants using cultured corals as a base material. AM.NUS has signed an International Technology Development Agreement with Taiwan-based Popeye Marine Biotechnology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verzinc.com\/nusam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}