Guest blogger, Michael Jukes (Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology) has been instrumental in the establishment of an active community of makers at Rhodes University, South Africa. Below he describes one seemingly simple printed modification to a light microscope. “Yay, 3D printers to the rescue printing useful microscope tools!! Well, […]
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) […]
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 […]