{
  "id": 12232640,
  "title": "Standard 3D printers let labs build and adapt tools for bacterial research",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/standard-3d-printers-let-labs-build-and-adapt-tools-for-bacterial",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-05T21:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-standard-3d-printers-labs-tools.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Studying microorganisms requires instruments with extremely high precision. Such instruments are expensive and take a long time to manufacture using traditional methods, which has slowed progress in the field. It has also been difficult for the biologists who use these instruments to participate directly in their development.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}