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Print a blood vessel you can actually suture. A UC San Diego team 3D-prints patient-specific vascular grafts with an AI-...
10/12/2026

Print a blood vessel you can actually suture. A UC San Diego team 3D-prints patient-specific vascular grafts with an AI-tuned bioink, built for low-cost microsurgery training. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75497

10/12/2026

The best technology in the room is often the reason a startup fails.

That's the pattern Jim West sees most across the life-science companies he accelerates. Not weak science — a platform that can do everything, pointed at nothing in particular. In his words:

"The big problems that we see companies struggling with, even if they don't know it, is focus … it's gotta go somewhere, somewhere specific that you can build your business off of."

West leads BioTools Innovator, the nonprofit accelerator for life-science tools and diagnostics. Narrowing a do-everything platform down to one go-to-market application is, he says, the single biggest thing his team helps founders with.

If you're building on a platform technology, have this conversation before your next raise.

Episode 128 of The Lattice Podcast, powered by 3DHEALS.
https://3dheals.com/episode-128-biotools-can-beat-moonshots-with-jim-west/

A tissue expander that inflates itself, no needles. A 4D-printed hydrogel expander swells over weeks on its own, aiming ...
10/09/2026

A tissue expander that inflates itself, no needles. A 4D-printed hydrogel expander swells over weeks on its own, aiming to replace the painful saline balloon in breast reconstruction.

10/09/2026

Everyone wants to fund the next miracle drug. Jim West says that's the worse bet.

Biotech is one shot at the plate: a three-to-five percent chance of a return, a swing at 100X, and years of regulatory risk. Life-science tools trade that for a five-to-ten-times return, better odds, no regulatory cliff, and a five-year horizon. Less glamorous — far more reliable.

West has run both plays. He co-founded and sold Clara Biotech, and now leads BioTools Innovator, the nonprofit accelerator for life-science tools and diagnostics. In his words:

"If you want to do the therapeutic home run grand slam sort of investing … you get one shot at plate, stay in biotech. The life science tools is not your place."

If you allocate to medtech, diagnostics, or research tools — or you're building in the space — give this one 28 minutes.

Episode 128 of The Lattice Podcast, powered by 3DHEALS.
https://3dheals.com/episode-128-biotools-can-beat-moonshots-with-jim-west/

VCU undergraduate Jazlyn Lopez Silva is refining a polymer 3D-printing material to be safe for implantable devices, with...
10/08/2026

VCU undergraduate Jazlyn Lopez Silva is refining a polymer 3D-printing material to be safe for implantable devices, with fibroblast testing as the next step - a look at early-stage academic work on implant biomaterials. https://sl1nk.com/fdq6mac

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