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MakerBot announced today that it's now shipping the Replicator Mini, its fifth-generation compact 3D printer. When first unveiling the printer at CES 2014, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis compared the new printer's 3D printing experience to the excitement "when Researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have successfully created cartilage using a MakerBot 3D printer. The team made use of the technology to quickly and affordably prototype and refine the bioprosthesis, and even used it to create a Makerbot—perhaps the most consumer-friendly of 3D printer manufacturers—is about to go a long way toward turning the tech into something consumers can actually use. Starting late this year, MakerBot is going to let you 3D print with a range of new Investigators at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have made a medical breakthrough using 3D printing on a MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D Printer to create cartilage designed for tracheal repair or replacement. The results were reported The Replicator 2X ships with a roll of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic filament, for which, according to MakerBot, the printer is optimized. We used ABS in our testing. It can also be used with polylactic acid (PLA) plastic. MakerBot sells Using 3D Printing, MakerBot and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Create Cartilage to Repair Tracheal Damage Results are showcased at 51 st Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Investigators at The Feinstein Institute for Medical .

Xavier University senior Alex Milliken spent the first two days of her "Intro to Human-Centered Making" class building a whiteboard with her classmates. Why? Because Xavier's new Center for Innovation didn't have whiteboards yet. Milliken, a computer The advent of 3D printing has brought a number of hardcore changes to the way we view manufacturing, and it's only going to get easier as time and technology moves forward. MakerBot, an outfit that specializes in 3D printing technology, has recently made 3D printing is slowly moving out of plastics and into, well, anything. MakerBot got in on the shift Tuesday at CES with the announcement of four new filaments built to mimic maple wood, limestone, iron and bronze. They will ship in late 2015. The materials The rumors are true: Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS ) really is buying MakerBot. The move is Stratasys' second huge consolidation in the past year, and appears to be the second-largest, 3-D printing industry tie-up by value behind the Stratasys-Objet merger. .