Will 3D printing revolutionize science? It's being used to print lab equipment, molecular models and drug compounds.
"If you’ve worn out the spike on your stiletto, misplaced your kazoo, or you need a cheap little centrifuge, three-dimensional printing and a growing community of designers devoted to open-source software have the solutions for you. Once considered the realm of tinkerers and toy makers, 3-D printing is providing scientists with a treasure trove of opportunities to custom-design equipment and experiments. Kevin Lance, a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco, once fixed a broken Pipetboy by simply drawing up the dimensions of the disabled part and printing it out. “It was an obscure internal part. You’d have to spend hundreds of dollars on a replacement,” Lance says. It took him a grand total of a few hours to make the part himself."
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