NIH 3D Print Exchange for publicly available biomedical files

Ever needed to download some 3dprintable models of cells? viruses? molecules? Some scientific lab equipment? Here is a new place for you!

What is NIH 3d print exchange:

The NIH 3D Print Exchange is a collaborative effort led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in collaboration with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the National Library of Medicine.

Few scientific 3D-printable models are available online, and the expertise required to generate and validate such models remains a barrier. The NIH 3D Print Exchange eliminates this gap with an open, comprehensive, and interactive website for searching, browsing, downloading, and sharing biomedical 3D print files, modeling tutorials, and educational material.

The site will have prewritten scripts that can turn 3D medical data, such as free models from the Electron Microscopy Database, into 3D printable files using the open-source UCSF Chimera software package.

 

http://3dprint.nih.gov/

NIH 3d print exchange youtube channel 

User can also submit their projects to NIH 3d print exchange

Some of the models on NIH