Part of Pandemic-Proof, Future Perfect’s series on the upgrades we can make to prepare for the next pandemic. Some of the most indelible images of the early pandemic were of the personal protective ...

CUMMING, Ga. — A Georgia dentist spent the weekend brainstorming with friends that had a background in engineering and medicine to help fill the shortage of face masks for those on the front line. Dr.

The reusable plastic face masks designed for 3D printers by a college graduate and a pair of local medical professionals have gone global. The free open-source software file they created has been ...

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Editor’s note: This story has been edited to reflect new information. Students at McGill University in Montreal, Que., are putting their higher education to use toward the greater good, designing new ...

The efforts will increase critical equipment as hospitals combat the coronavirus The U.S. military is 3D-printing face shields, designing reusable plastic N95 masks and sewing surgical masks to ...

MANKATO — The 3D printers at Mankato area secondary schools are not sitting idle while students are learning from home. Teachers took the high-tech printers home and are using them to make hundreds of ...

Hospitals and medical facilities around the United States are reporting critical shortages of the protective equipment they need to keep their workers and patients safe, so some DIYers are coming up ...

Christian Fracassi, founder and CEO of Isinnova, an Italian engineering startup, heard the call for help last Friday. The hospital in Chiari, in the Brescia area of northern Italy where the ...