Collaborate Disseminate
Yuly Fuentes-Medel hopes to communicate the value of science across disciplines, cultures, and peoples. Continue reading This Neuroscientist Brings ‘Research to the Runway’ With STEM-Inspired Fashion
Yuly Fuentes-Medel hopes to communicate the value of science across disciplines, cultures, and peoples. Continue reading This Neuroscientist Brings ‘Research to the Runway’ With STEM-Inspired Fashion
This is more than a printing filament hack — closer to bleeding edge bio-engineering — but we can’t help but be fascinated by the prospect of 3D printing with filament that’s alive on a cellular level.
The team from MIT led by [Xuanhe Zhao] and [Timothy Lu] have programmed bacteria cells to respond to specific compounds. To demonstrate, they printed a temporary tattoo of a tree formed of the sturdy bacteria and a hydrogel ‘ink’ loaded with nutrients, that lights up over a few hours when adhered to skin swabbed with these specific stimuli.
So far, the team has been …read more
This is more than a printing filament hack — closer to bleeding edge bio-engineering — but we can’t help but be fascinated by the prospect of 3D printing with filament that’s alive on a cellular level.
The team from MIT led by [Xuanhe Zhao] and [Timothy Lu] have programmed bacteria cells to respond to specific compounds. To demonstrate, they printed a temporary tattoo of a tree formed of the sturdy bacteria and a hydrogel ‘ink’ loaded with nutrients, that lights up over a few hours when adhered to skin swabbed with these specific stimuli.
So far, the team has been …read more
If print supports have ever caused you grief, know that there’s an alternate printing method in the works. First: get yourself a vat of industrial gel in which to print.
Rapid Liquid Printing(RLP) is being developed in collaboration by Michigan-based company [Steelcase] and [Skylar Tibbits’] Self Assembly Lab at MIT. RLP is touting advantages over traditional 3D printing technology such as reduced print times, a higher quality print, and enabling larger scale prints — all without supports!
Working with rubber, plastic, or foam, the printing material is injected by nozzle into a basin of industrial gel. That gel suspends the …read more
Firefly-like leaves are a big step forward in the field of plant nanobionics. Continue reading Researchers Are Working on Plants That Could Glow Bright Enough to Replace Lamps
Traditional desktop 3D printing technology has effectively hit a wall. The line between a $200 and a $1000 printer is blurrier now than ever before, and there’s a fairly prevalent argument in the community that you’d be better off upgrading two cheap printers and pocketing the change than buying a single high-end printer if the final results are going to be so similar.
The reason for this is simple: physics. Current printers have essentially hit the limits of how fast the gantry can move, how fast plastic filament can pushed through the extruder, and how fast that plastic can be …read more
These special quantum computers are able to model physical interactions that are too complex for conventional supercomputers. Continue reading Physicists Made an Unprecedented 53 Qubit Quantum Simulator
The new delivery mechanism completely turned off a gene responsible for high cholesterol in mice. Continue reading CRISPR Can Now Edit Genes Using Nanoparticles Instead of Viruses
But take heart: It still requires human developers. Continue reading New MIT Tool Automatically Rewrites Old Code for New Software
