Print Your Own Medicine Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated 1 molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small 2 molecules and reverse engineering. And as a chemist, one of 3 the things I wanted to ask my research group a couple of 4 years ago is, could we make a really cool universal 5 chemistry set? In essence, could we "app" chemistry? 6 Now what would this mean, and how would we do it? 7 Well to start to do this, we took a 3D printer and we 8 started to print our beakers and our test tubes on one side 9 Notes: and then print the molecule at the same time on the other 10 side and combine them together in what we call 11 reactionware. And so by printing the vessel and doing the 12 chemistry at the same time, we may start to access this 13 universal toolkit of chemistry. 14 Now what could this mean? Well if we can embed 15 biological and chemical networks like a search engine, so if 16 you have a cell that's ill that you need to cure or bacteria 17 that you want to kill, if you have this embedded in your 18 device at the same time, and you do the chemistry, you 19 may be able to make drugs in a new way. 20 So how are we doing this in the lab? Well it requires 21
Print Your Own Medicine 1 Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated 2 molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small 3 molecules and reverse engineering. And as a chemist, one of 4 the things I wanted to ask my research group a couple of 5 years ago is, could we make a really cool universal 6 chemistry set? In essence, could we "app" chemistry? 7 Now what would this mean, and how would we do it? 8 Well to start to do this, we took a 3D printer and we 9 started to print our beakers and our test tubes on one side Notes: 10 and then print the molecule at the same time on the other 11 side and combine them together in what we call 12 reactionware. And so by printing the vessel and doing the 13 chemistry at the same time, we may start to access this 14 universal toolkit of chemistry. 15 Now what could this mean? Well if we can embed 16 biological and chemical networks like a search engine, so if 17 you have a cell that's ill that you need to cure or bacteria 18 that you want to kill, if you have this embedded in your 19 device at the same time, and you do the chemistry, you 20 may be able to make drugs in a new way. 21 So how are we doing this in the lab? Well it requires