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Synthetic chemists print labware to order - The time may soon come for chemists to throw away all their old glass reaction vessels. UK and Norwegian scientists have now shown that far better and more effective vessels can be fabricated on a 3D printer. References: (1) M D Symes et al, Nat. Chem., 2012, DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1313. (2) D Johnson, Nat. Chem., 2012, DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1333