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Breaking Bad in 3D? If recent work by a team of University of Glasgow
scientists persists, that could soon be a hard reality -- just without
the glasses. Taking what's typically been the province of sanitized
laboratories and moving it outside, the group's devised an efficient
method that makes use of commercial-grade three-dimensional printers
to create "reactionware vessels": custom-designed, polymer gels that
house and aide in chemical reactions. The technique, already viable on a
larger, albeit slower scale, is not quite ready for primetime, but with
future refinements could eventually trickle down into small businesses,
or third-world countries where it'd be used for rapid medical
treatment. And, in a hypothetical scenario that'll likely provoke
scrutiny from the FDA and DEA, consumers might one day be able to save a
trip to the drugstore and simply print from home -- a decidedly different
spin on designer drugs -- using apps. Of course, this is all just
speculation of potential future applications. We trust that humanity and
enterprise will put this medication replication to noble use -- until
it hits the club, that is.
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