Showing results tagged with "Academic Research"

The Mimics Innovation Suite Is Helping Researchers Study Hagfish Slime!

Radhika Dhuru
September 21, 2015

Ever been fascinated by hagfish slime? No? You should be. This extraordinary goop can leave aquatic predators fumbling to detach themselves while the slippery hagfish makes a getaway, and also contains protein threads of remarkable strength comparable to that of spider silks. With those material properties, the substance could help develop a sustainable resource that could save our ecosystem: and our software program Mimics is helping researchers find out how the humble hagfish produces such a super-material on short notice.

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Meet the Newest Version of the Mimics Innovation Suite - the Software Behind Our Most Touching Stories!

Liesbeth Kemel
June 03, 2015

As we’ve already announced, this year Materialise is celebrating its 25th anniversary. In these past 25 years, the Mimics Innovation Suite (Materialise’s software solutions for biomedical engineering) has helped engineers, doctors, implant designers and many others realize endless meaningful innovations. We recently reported on some astounding cases, like the separation of conjoined twins and the printing of a complex congenital heart model for a four-year-old girl.

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Materialise Makes Its Way into National Geographic

Vanessa Palsenbarg
November 18, 2014

National Geographic’s yellow portrait frame is one of the most iconic logos around. The yellow frame surrounds some of the most amazing images possible to capture with a camera, with high-quality, beautiful photos that reveal the world around us and beyond. For this reason, many of us have grown up surrounded by stacks of National Geographic magazines, either at home or at the houses of family and friends, for generations. This is not just a magazine, it is part of our collective experience and memory.

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