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3D bioprinted soft tissue scaffold with vascularization channels perfused with red ink designed and produced using 3D Systems' and CollPlant's expertise and solutions.

3D bioprinted soft tissue scaffold with vascularization channels perfused with red ink designed and produced using 3D Systems' and CollPlant's expertise and solutions.

High resolution 3D bioprinted soft tissue matrix mimics patients anatomy, enables in-growth to facilitate healing and enhanced outcomes

Unlimited supply of plant-based recombinant human collagen (rhCollagen) does not require animal or human sources to produce

ROCK HILL, S.C. and REHOVOT, Israel, June 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) and CollPlant Biotechnologies (NASDAQ:CLGN) announced they have signed a co-development agreement for a 3D bioprinted regenerative soft tissue matrix for use in breast reconstruction procedures in combination with an implant. The soft tissue matrix is intended to support the lower portion of the breast while expanding the implant pocket and providing increased coverage of the implant. Using 3D bioprinting, these matrices can be designed to match the patients anatomy to support the breast implant.

According to the World Health Organization, 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer globally in 2020, of which, a large majority required partial or full removal of breast tissue. Survival probabilities are 90% or greater due to highly effective treatments which is increasing the focus on delivering improved options for reconstruction. The majority of breast reconstruction procedures use soft tissue matrices derived from human cadavers or animals. These sources are associated with supply shortages and batch-to-batch variability, as well as the possibility for eliciting immune response which impacts healing.

Through this co-development agreement, 3D Systems and CollPlant with combined expertise in 3D printing, healthcare, bioprinting and bioinks will develop 3D bioprinted soft tissue matrices using rhCollagen. The 3D bioprinted soft tissue matrix product in development is designed to meet the required physical and mechanical properties while promoting cell infiltration and proliferation by using bioink formulations based on rhCollagen that promote tissue regeneration. The companies believe their efforts will result in tissue matrices that offer superior performance, consistency and safety due to their plant origin and identical match with natural human collagen which does not elicit an adverse immune response in humans.

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In January of this year, we announced our intention to increase the investment in regenerative medicine and focus on developing and commercializing solutions to change how healthcare is delivered and bring substantial benefits to patients, said Dr. Jeffrey Graves, president & chief executive officer, 3D Systems. Through this project were embarking on with CollPlant, were exploring a novel application that could offer a new reconstruction treatment for breast cancer survivors. Its inspiring to be involved in a project that has the potential to have such a positive impact on the human condition.

Weve joined forces with 3D Systems to offer a regenerative soft tissue matrix that may significantly increase the addressable market for soft tissue reinforcement in breast implant procedures. A regenerative solution can increase safety, eliminate product variability, and enhance results by promoting new tissue growth, stated Yehiel Tal, chief executive officer, CollPlant. We are pleased to deepen our collaboration with 3D Systems as part of CollPlants strategy as a leader in regenerative medicine.

About 3D Systems More than 30 years ago, 3D Systems brought the innovation of 3D printing to the manufacturing industry. Today, as the leading AM solutions company, it empowers manufacturers to create products and business models never before possible through transformed workflows. This is achieved with the Companys best-of-breed digital manufacturing ecosystem - comprised of plastic and metal 3D printers, print materials, on-demand manufacturing services and a portfolio of end-to-end manufacturing software. Each solution is powered by the expertise of the companys application engineers who collaborate with customers to transform manufacturing environments. 3D Systems solutions address a variety of advanced applications for prototyping through production in markets such as aerospace, automotive, medical, dental and consumer goods. More information on the company is available at http://www.3dsystems.com.

About CollPlantCollPlant is a regenerative and aesthetic medicine company focused on 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs, and medical aesthetics. The Companys products are based on its rhCollagen (recombinant human collagen) produced with CollPlants proprietary plant based genetic engineering technology. These products address indications for the diverse fields of tissue repair, aesthetics, and organ manufacturing, and are ushering in a new era in regenerative and aesthetic medicine. CollPlant recently entered a development and global commercialization agreement for dermal and soft tissue fillers with Allergan, an AbbVie company, the global leader in the dermal filler market. For more information about CollPlant, visit http://www.collplant.com

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements This press release may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements relating to CollPlant's and 3D Systems objectives, plans and strategies, as well as statements, other than historical facts, that address activities, events or developments that CollPlant and 3D Systems each intends, expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future. These statements are often characterized by terminology such as "believes," "hopes," "may," "anticipates," "should," "intends," "plans," "will," "expects," "estimates," "projects," "positioned," "strategy" and similar expressions and are based on assumptions and assessments made in light of management's experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors believed to be appropriate. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Many factors could cause CollPlant's and 3D Systems actual activities or results to differ materially from the activities and results anticipated in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the CollPlants history of significant losses and its need to raise additional capital and its inability to obtain additional capital on acceptable terms, or at all; CollPlants and 3D Systems expectations regarding the timing and cost of commencing clinical trials with respect to tissues and organs which are based on its rhCollagen-based BioInk; the CollPlants and 3D Systems or its business partners ability to obtain favorable pre-clinical and clinical trial results; regulatory action with respect to rhCollagen-based BioInk, including but not limited to acceptance of an application for marketing authorization, review and approval of such application, and, if approved, the scope of the approved indication and labeling; commercial success and market acceptance of the CollPlants rhCollagen-based BioInk and 3D Systems technologies; CollPlants ability to establish sales and marketing capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties and its reliance on third-party distributors and resellers; the CollPlants and 3D Systems ability to establish and maintain strategic partnerships and other corporate collaborations; CollPlants and 3D Systems reliance on third parties to conduct some aspects of its product manufacturing; the scope of protection CollPlant and 3D Systems are able to establish and maintain for intellectual property rights and the companies ability to operate their business without infringing the intellectual property rights of others; the overall global economic environment; the impact of competition and new technologies; general market, political, and economic conditions in the countries in which the companies operate; projected capital expenditures and liquidity; changes in the companies strategy; and litigation and regulatory proceedings. More detailed information about the risks and uncertainties affecting CollPlant and 3D Systems is contained under the heading "Risk Factors" included in CollPlant's most recent annual report on Form 20-F and 3D Systems most recent annual report on Form 10-K, and in other periodic filings, that CollPlant and 3D Systems have filed with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and reflect CollPlant's and 3D Systems current views with respect to future events, and neither company undertakes, and each company specifically disclaims, any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Amazon's (AMZN) two-day Prime Day event wraps up today, a summer shopping bonanza that celebrates nothing but shopping itself.

Conceived in 2015 to commemorate the company's 20th birthday, Prime Day has become a summer clearance event for electronics, household (almost) needs, appliances that seem useful at least at first and Amazon-branded hardware. Falling in the second or third quarter of Amazon's fiscal year, the event can help boost sales during a seasonally weaker part of the calendar.

But the Prime membership itself and the Prime Day "celebration" held for these members is not about Amazon's business, or at least not exclusively. Because while Prime Day will no doubt augment top-line growth in the current quarter, what Amazon really gets out of throwing a dart at the calendar and declaring it a consumer holiday is that it makes competitors bend to its will.

Target (TGT) is offering "deal days" while Best Buy (BBY) runs the "Bigger Deal Savings Event" through today. Walmart (WMT) has "Deals for Days" running through Wednesday. At J.Crew, where sale items are an extra 50% off, they just call it Tuesday.

The Jeff Bezos quote most business strategy types will break out to sound sophisticated is the old line that "Your margin is my opportunity." Pithy, sure. But also proven true enough across Amazon's different businesses.

Amazon now owns a production studio, grocery stores, and delivery vans dropping off small deliveries on porches across the country. Where Bezos and his team had been paying someone for a product food, entertainment, delivery services, cloud services, and so on the company sought to simply do it themselves, an opportunity against your profit source. Prime Day is no different.

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This year's Prime Day is notable, however, in that it marks the final iteration of this event under Jeff Bezos' leadership at Amazon. In a few weeks, Bezos will step down as CEO of the company he founded and then, later next month, will get launched into space.

What Amazon shareholders should hope doesn't leave with Bezos is the culture that drove Amazon to development units like AWS, products like the Prime membership, and the entire "flywheel" Bezos talks of so often in his annual shareholder letters.

Prime Day no doubt accomplishes many of the aforementioned goals, like inventory management and pressuring competitors. But Prime Day also makes the Amazon flywheel spin a little faster. More consumers spending more money in more places online, and on more days, means Amazon gets more chances to capture a slice of that activity.

"If you want to be successful in business (in life, actually), you have to create more than you consume," Bezos wrote in his most recent letter to Amazon shareholders. "Your goal should be to create value for everyone you interact with. Any business that doesnt create value for those it touches, even if it appears successful on the surface, isnt long for this world. Its on the way out."

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In Minnesota, the HealthPartners system has seen a precipitous decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations, says Dr. Mark Sannes, an infectious disease physician and senior medical director for the system, which operates nine hospitals and more than 55 clinics. But now, nearly every admitted patient he does see is unvaccinated.

Less than 1% of our hospitalized COVID patients are vaccinated," he said.

In Ohio, at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, only 2% of the COVID-19 patients admitted in the last month were vaccinated, said Dr. Robert Salata, the hospital's physician-in-chief.

And at Sanford Health, which runs 44 medical centers and more than 200 clinics across the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa, less than 5% of the 1,456 patients admitted with COVID-19 so far this year were fully vaccinated, said spokesperson Angela Dejene.

Falling rates of COVID-19 across the United States mask a harsh reality the overwhelming majority of those getting sick and being hospitalized today are unvaccinated, while vaccinated patients are becoming rare.

Hospitals in states with the lowest vaccination rates tend to have more COVID-19 patients in intensive care units, according to hospital data collected in the past week by the Department of Health and Human Services and vaccination rates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wyoming, Missouri, Arkansas and Idaho currently have the highest percentage of COVID-19 patients on average in their ICUs; those states all have vaccinated less than 40% of their population.

Medical centers say there's also an obvious change in the age of their sickest patients, as older people are much more likely to be vaccinated than younger.

"We're all seeing the same thing when someone does get sick and comes to the hospital, they're much more likely to be young and unvaccinated," said Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Cathy Bennett, president and CEO of the New Jersey Hospital Association, said the picture is the same in her state.

"As COVID vaccinations rolled out across New Jersey, theres been a major shift in the ages of patients admitted to the hospital," said Bennett. "Unlike last spring, when those 65 and older accounted for the majority of hospitalizations, were now seeing more young people hospitalized with COVID."

In Ohio, Salata said the shift should be reassuring, showing the vaccines work.

"It sends a very strong message to the hesitancy people out there because the data speaks for itself," he said.

Doctors say there are multiple reasons people aren't yet vaccinated. There are the hesitant, who still have questions and sometimes fall prey to misinformation, and the opposed, who often harbor anti-government or anti-science sentiments.

"We've had a little success when we've spoken to them on a one-to-one basis. We can give them the information that they need to make their decision," said Dr. Gerald Maloney, chief medical officer for hospital services at Geisinger health network, which runs nine hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Some still can't easily access vaccine, either because it's not available nearby or because they can't get time off work.

And while the U.S. government paid for all vaccines and vaccinations so no one should be charged, others remain fearful they will be on the financial hook for a shot, Maloney said.

Eleanor Leisenring speaks with Cheryl McHale, RN, after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at a Geisinger community vaccine center in Danville, Pa.

Last week, Health and Human Services secretary Secretary Xavier Becerra clarified in a letter that providers may not bill patients for COVID-19 vaccines.

There's still a lot of work to be done to create the trust necessary for these groups to embrace vaccination, Maloney said.

"The people who say, 'It's my body, my choice?' Well, it's not all about you," he said. "It's also about the people that you're around."

At this point, every vaccination is a win, one more person who can't pass the virus along. That's especially true in families where children can't be vaccinated and are still at risk.

At Akron Childrens Hospital in Ohio, we have not seen any kiddos who have been admitted to the hospital who have been vaccinated, said Dr. Michael Bigham, a pediatric intensivist in the critical care unit.

Among children 11 and younger, who cant yet get the vaccine, having vaccinated family members is keeping them out of the hospital, and protecting them against MIS-C, the multisystem inflammatory syndrome that can be a rare but dangerous aftereffect of a COVID-19 infection in children.

Most of the kids were seeing in the hospital with COVID or MIS-C had COVID in their household, maybe a parent or a grandparent, and most of those individuals had not been vaccinated, he said.

The message from health care workers is unanimous: They just aren't seeing many vaccinated people get sick.

In New Jersey, the percentage of COVID-19 hospitalizations among those ages 18 to 29 has increased 58% since the beginning of the year. By comparison, the percentage of COVID-19 hospitalizations among the 65 and older age group with a statewide vaccination rate of more than 80% declined by 31.2%.

The numbers are no coincidence, Bennett said.

"Vaccination," she said, "works in preventing severe COVID illness."

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People perform a funeral ceremony on May 9, 2021, for a girl killed in powerful explosions outside a high school in a predominantly Hazara neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)

KABUL, Afghanistan The slaughter of students, mostly teenagers, at a tutoring center. The deaths of young athletes in a suicide bombing at a wrestling club. Mothers shot dead with newborns in their arms.

These relentless killings of Hazaras, a persecuted minority in Afghanistan, finally proved too much to bear for Zulfiqar Omid, a Hazara leader in the central part of the country.

In April, Omid began mobilizing armed men into militias to defend Hazara areas against the Taliban and the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan. He said he now commands 800 armed men at seven staging areas mustered into what he calls self-protection groups.

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Hazaras get killed in cities and on highways, but the government doesnt protect them, Omid said. Enough is enough. We have to protect ourselves.

As U.S. and NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, and talks falter between the Taliban and the American-backed government, ethnic groups across the country have formed militias or say they plan to arm themselves. The rush to raise fighters and weapons evokes the mujahedeen wars of the early 1990s, when rival militias killed thousands of civilians and left sections of Kabul in ruins.

A concerted and determined militia movement, even if nominally aligned with Afghan security forces, could fracture the unsteady government of President Ashraf Ghani and once again divide the country into fiefs ruled by warlords. Yet these makeshift armies may eventually serve as the last line of defense as security force bases and outposts steadily collapse in the face of a fierce onslaught of attacks by the Taliban.

Since the U.S. troop withdrawal was announced in April, regional strongmen have posted videos on social media showing armed men hoisting assault rifles and vowing to fight the Taliban. Some militia leaders fear the flagging peace talks in Doha, Qatar, will collapse after foreign troops depart and the Taliban will intensify an all-out assault to capture provincial capitals and lay siege to Kabul.

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For the first time in 20 years, power brokers are speaking publicly about mobilizing armed men, the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a research group in Kabul, wrote in a June 4 report.

Hazaras have the most to fear from a return to power by the Taliban, which massacred thousands of the predominantly Shiite group when the Sunni Muslim militants governed most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. The Taliban consider Hazaras heretics.

The most prominent Hazara militia commander is Abdul Ghani Alipur, whose militiamen in Wardak province, a mountainous area that borders Kabul, have clashed with government forces. Alipur had been implicated in the shooting down of a military helicopter in March. In an interview, he denied any involvement, although an aide said at the time that Alipurs militiamen had shot at the aircraft.

If we dont stand up and defend ourselves, history will repeat itself and we will be massacred like during the time of Abdul Rahman Khan, Alipur said, referring to the Pashtun Iron Emir who ruled in the late 19th century, massacring and enslaving Hazaras. Afghan folklore says he displayed towers built from severed Hazara heads.

They forced us to pick up guns, Alipur said of the government, which has failed to protect Hazaras. We must carry guns to protect ourselves.

Over the past two decades, Hazaras have built thriving communities in west Kabul and in Hazarajat, their mountainous homeland in central Afghanistan. But with no militias of their own, they have been vulnerable to attack.

Hazara demands for an army escalated after up to 69 schoolgirls were killed in a bombing in Kabul on May 8. Less than a month later, three public transport minivans were bombed in Kabuls Hazara neighborhoods, killing 18 civilians, most of them Hazara. Among them was a journalist and her mother, the police said. Since 2016, at least 766 Hazara have been killed in the capital alone in 23 attacks, according to New York Times data.

Tajik have weapons, Pashtuns are armed, said Arif Rahmani, a Hazara member of parliament. We Hazaras must also have a system to protect ourselves.

Mahdi Raskih, another Hazara member of parliament, said he had counted 35 major attacks against Hazaras in recent years a campaign of genocide, he said. He said he had lost patience with government promises of protection for Hazara schools, mosques and social centers.

If they cant provide security, be honest and admit it, Raskih said. People believe the government feels no responsibility for them, so our people must pick up guns and fight.

Hazara soldiers, police and intelligence officers have quit or have been forced out of the security forces because of discrimination, Raskih said, providing militias with a valuable source of trained men. Many Hazara politicians, including Ghanis second vice president, Sarwar Danesh, have called on the government to stop what they call a genocide of Hazaras. Hundreds of Hazaras have taken to Twitter, at #StopHazarasGenocide, to demand government protection.

Even as some Hazaras mobilize, some Tajik and Uzbek groups never completely disbanded the militias that helped U.S. forces topple the Taliban in 2001. Other ethnic commanders have recently begun forming militias as the Taliban continue to overrun government bases and outposts.

Many of these power brokers are locked in an enduring struggle with the Ghani administration, vying for control, while trying to gain the upper hand in a post-withdrawal Afghanistan.

Nationally, one prominent leader to maintain a militia is Ahmad Massoud, 32, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, a charismatic commander of the Northern Alliance that helped U.S. forces rout the Taliban in late 2001.

Ahmad Massoud has assembled a coalition of militias in northern Afghanistan. Calling his armed uprising the Second Resistance, Massoud is purportedly backed by a few thousand fighters and about a dozen aging militia commanders who fought the Taliban and the Soviets.

Some Afghan leaders say Massoud is too inexperienced to effectively lead an armed movement. But some Western leaders view him as a valuable source of intelligence on al-Qaida and Islamic State groups inside Afghanistan.

Elsewhere, the roll call of regional leaders who appear to be mobilizing reads like a whos who of the countrys civil war in the 1990s. But their forces are nowhere near as commanding now.

Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a brutal Uzbek strongman, has long maintained a private army of thousands from his base in Jowzjan province. Dostum, who has been accused of war crimes and sodomizing an Uzbek rival with an assault rifle, would nonetheless be a central figure in any armed uprising against the Taliban.

Another power broker whose actions are being watched closely, Atta Muhammad Noor, is a former warlord and commanding figure in Balkh province, which includes Afghanistans commercial hub, Mazar-i-Sharif. He said Tuesday that he would mobilize his militia forces alongside government troops to try to retake territory that had fallen to the Taliban in recent days after the insurgents rapid offensive in the north.

In Herat province in the west, former Tajik warlord Mohammed Ismail Khan, another Northern Alliance commander who helped defeat the Taliban, recently broadcast a raucous gathering of armed men on his Facebook page.

Khan told supporters that a half-million people in Herat were poised to take up arms to defend you and keep your city safe a clear signal that he intended to mobilize his militia if peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban collapsed.

Also in Herat, Kamran Alizai, a Pashtun who leads the provincial council, said he commanded a large number of armed men ready to mobilize at a moments notice.

If government forces were unable to hold Herat, Alizai said, We will stand by them and fight the Taliban.

The Afghanistan Analysts Network reported that Abdul Basir Salangi, a former militia commander and an ex-police chief in Kabul, said in a speech in January that militias were forming in the Salang district in north-central Afghanistan in case talks collapsed. Such talk has become more blatant since the U.S. troop withdrawal announcement, the report said.

For Hazara militias, a wild card are thousands of Hazara former fighters of the Fatemiyoun Division, trained by Iran and deployed to Syria in 2014 through 2017, ostensibly to protect Shiite Muslim religious sites from the Sunni Muslim-dominated Islamic State. Others were sent to Yemen to fight alongside Houthi rebels against the Saudi-backed government.

Many Fatemiyoun fighters have returned to Afghanistan, raising fears they will be incorporated into Hazara militias, providing Iran a proxy force inside the country. But analysts and Hazara leaders say former Fatemiyoun have been turned away because of their Iranian ties and potential prosecution by the Afghan government.

In Kabul, many Hazaras say they are ready to take up guns. Mohammad, a shopkeeper who like many Afghans goes by one name, said he crossed a ditch flowing with blood when he ran from his shop to help after explosions rocked the neighboring Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school on May 8, killing the dozens of schoolgirls as they left for home.

Im 24, and there have been 24 attacks in my lifetime against Hazaras, he said.

Mohammad said several of his friends have recently joined militias led by Alipur and Omid.

If this situation continues, he said, Ill pick up a gun and kill whoever kills us.

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South Carolina and U.S. women's basketball coach Dawn Staley isn't outright saying she wants to jump to the NBA, but she isn't exactly denying it either. Staley was asked about rumors she's being pursued for NBA head coach openings, and she responded by saying she would "consider it all."

Staley was asked about the possibility while appearing on "Today."

Staley initially tries to indirectly answer the question, saying "you have to answer each call" whether or not she wants to take that leap. When pressed further, Staley said, "At this stage of the game, I think you have to consider it all."

She also spoke about the importance of a woman making that leap and coaching in the NBA, saying, "you have to consider it." Staley then tried to throw some cold water on that thought, adding, "you have to be ready for it."

The entire segment read as Staley essentially saying, "Yes, I will take calls from NBA teams and I am interested in being the first woman head coach in the NBA, but I don't want to upset South Carolina by openly pining for a different position."

Dawn Staley will take calls from NBA teams. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Staley reportedly isn't the only woman being considered for an NBA head coaching job. San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon is also expected to be interviewed for open positions. Hammon has NBA experience, coaching a 2020 game after Gregg Popovich was ejected.

Staley hasn't coached in the NBA, but has an impressive rsum. She's spent over a decade coaching women's college basketball, first at Temple and currently at South Carolina. In addition to that, the NBA Hall of Famer is also the head coach of the U.S. women's basketball team.

Monday's appearance on "Today" is not the first time Staley has expressed a desire to coach in the NBA. In June, she told the New York Times she "can stand in front of men and lead them."

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