Insulin!
3D Printing Viral Capsid Models – Beware the spikes!
Using a single extruder RepRap Ormerod we attempted to print a Rotavirus viral capsid available for download from the recently launched NIH 3D Print Exchange site (SA11 Rotavirus trypsinized Triple Layered Particle Model ID 3DPX-000275). The downloaded STL was imported into Meshmixer 2 to generate some supports as the spikes that extend from the capsid (VP4 protein) […]
Buckyball!
Molecular Models (pt I)
Getting to Grips with 3D printers- The RepRap Way
Deciding on a 3D printer is like it or not often related to cost; as is everything else. Not to forget ease of installation and use. What one tends to forget is what happens when that machine that was cheap and easy to use breaks down. Warranty aside, would you delve into the inner workings […]
Scientists, what R U 3D printing today?
At the breakneck speeds of advances being made in Additive Manufacturing there are smaller, simpler things that are being printed on a daily basis in labs around the world. An Agarose Gel Casting Tray for Nucleic Acid Electrophoresis A 3D printed model of a DNA helix. The examples above are extremely simple but can have […]
3D Printing: Disruptive Innovation in Scientific Research & Education
3D printing is the future promised today; well that’s what everyone says. Disruptive innovation is well and truly here, unfortunately not wrapped up in an entirely affordable package but prices are racing down; if every Kickstarter is to be believed. Certainly the RepRap movement has spurred this rapid evolution of printers. The question asked is […]