Concentrator/Evaporator in Biology

Information Services is currently working with a Biology Dept faculty member to design a feature-rich yet inexpensive concentrator/evaporator to be used to facilitate the preparations of biological samples for characterization and other experiments. As shown in the...

Electrophoresis Comb and Holder

Gel electrophoresis is a lab method used to separate mixtures of DNA, RNA, or proteins according to molecular size, and it is used in both teaching and scholarship here at UR. Dr. Omar Quintero needed help designing electrophoresis combs (and their associated holder)...

What is a Kugelrohr?

Kugelrohr is German for “sphere tube,” and it’s used in chemistry for vacuum distillation, often necessary for chemical synthesis. Professors Dominey and Goldman research lab designed the portion of a kugelrohr that would allow isolating the chemical compounds that...

Researching Flexible Printing Filament and Resin

Up until 2015 or so, there were very few plastics and resins for their respective types of 3D printers.  Since then, there has been much work done to develop new an interesting resins and plastics for specialized uses, e.g., plastic filament with metal filings, carbon...