Let’s face it — running a laboratory can be expensive. Equipment can cost anywhere from $1 to hundreds of thousands of dollars. To keep expenses down, professors and undergraduate students alike have tried to replicate instruments for use in their research. What if there was a way to cut those costs and still have the precision instrument needed to carry out experiments? What if you could create some of your lab equipment in a few hours using a material like polylactic acid (PLA)?
3D Printing to the Rescue!
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