What Happened to 3D-Printed Drugs?
Nanalyze June 28, 2020
Healthcare is usually seen as pretty recession proof. After all, when things head south, our health can go sideways. But the current pandemic has reportedly wiped out 1.4 million jobs in the medical field. (Do you really want to go in for that nose job and leave with a potentially deadly pulmonary infection?) While the layoffs are mainly blamed on a precipitous drop in highly profitable elective surgery, you’ve got to figure that the healthcare industry may take this opportunity to further automate hospitals with robots and use artificial intelligence to manage clinical workloads. A third technology that has begun to disrupt healthcare is 3D printing, from bioprinting human tissue to medical devices for 3D diagnostic models, with major 3D...