3-D Printing Complex Objects in a Flash

3-D Printing Complex Objects in a Flash

The technique offers a way to make multicomponent objects with fine details, such as flow cells with blades that spin on an axle for transporting and mixing reagents. Xolo plans to commercialize the xolographic printer. Xolography is a variant of volumetric 3-D...
The Race to Repurpose Nature’s Protein Factories

The Race to Repurpose Nature’s Protein Factories

Ribosomes are so good at their job that researchers want to harness them to make other polymers. If they could coax these protein-translation machines to use building blocks other than the amino acids found in nature, they could discover polymers—whether proteins or...