Companies are using 3-D printers to make highly customized products, from running shoes to toys to jewelry. And the medical world is exploring many uses for the technology, including making replacement body parts and implants used to stimulate growth in damaged tissue. George Cheng, research fellow in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
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