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From the Ted Talk by Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine
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Organic chemists make molleecus, very complicated molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and rveerse eningnerieg. And as a chemist, one of the things I wanted to ask my research group a couple of years ago is, could we make a really cool universal chemistry set? In essence, could we "app" chismerty?.
Now what would this mean, and how would we do it? Well to start to do this, we took a 3D printer and we started to pnirt our beakers and our test tubes on one side and then print the molecule at the same time on the other side and combine them together in what we call reactionware. And so by printing the vesesl and doing the chemistry at the same time, we may start to access this universal toolkit of chemistry.
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Organic chemists make _________, very complicated molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and _______ ___________. And as a chemist, one of the things I wanted to ask my research group a couple of years ago is, could we make a really cool universal chemistry set? In essence, could we "app" _________?.
Now what would this mean, and how would we do it? Well to start to do this, we took a 3D printer and we started to _____ our beakers and our test tubes on one side and then print the molecule at the same time on the other side and combine them together in what we call reactionware. And so by printing the ______ and doing the chemistry at the same time, we may start to access this universal toolkit of chemistry.
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Original Text
Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and reverse engineering. And as a chemist, one of the things I wanted to ask my research group a couple of years ago is, could we make a really cool universal chemistry set? In essence, could we "app" chemistry?.
Now what would this mean, and how would we do it? Well to start to do this, we took a 3D printer and we started to print our beakers and our test tubes on one side and then print the molecule at the same time on the other side and combine them together in what we call reactionware. And so by printing the vessel and doing the chemistry at the same time, we may start to access this universal toolkit of chemistry.
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