{"id":18370,"date":"2015-11-05T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T12:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/research\/parts-of-commercial-3-d-printed-objects-toxic-to-zebrafish-embryos\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:09:00","slug":"parts-of-commercial-3-d-printed-objects-toxic-to-zebrafish-embryos","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/parts-of-commercial-3-d-printed-objects-toxic-to-zebrafish-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Parts of commercial 3-D printed objects toxic to zebrafish embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The popularity of 3-D printers is soaring. But how safe are they? Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, found that parts of materials produced by common commercial 3-D printers \u2013 including the one that melts plastic to build a part, and another that uses light to turn a liquid into a solid part \u2013 were toxic to zebrafish embryos. Of the two, the parts from the liquid-based printer were significantly more toxic. When exposed to toxic parts, the embryos\u2019 survival rate reduced. However, exposing the toxic parts to ultraviolet light for an hour reduced the toxicity. The researchers now wish to find out how harmful the 3-D printer parts are for humans. The research findings have raised questions about how safe is using a 3-D printer as well as how the waste from 3-D printers should be disposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/11\/151104151532.htm\">Science Daily<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[5744,5742,5743],"class_list":["post-18370","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-and-pharmaceutics","subject-pharmacology","subject-toxicology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parts of commercial 3-D printed objects toxic to zebrafish embryos | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The popularity of 3-D printers is soaring. 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