Lab's Three Bambu Printers Now Run Flat-Out As DNA Barcoding Scales to Thousands of Samples

generativist · x · 2026-09-05

Chris Anderson shares a BioKEA lab update: three Bambu 3D printers are running flat-out printing bug-sorting prototypes, field collection gear parts, and everyday lab tools for DNA barcoding.

From "one is enough" to "who's hogging the third?" in about a week — the team is ramping production DNA barcoding to hundreds, soon thousands, of specimens a day.

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