{"id":9661,"date":"2015-01-08T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:04","slug":"square-hole-make-a-square-peg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=9661","title":{"rendered":"Square Hole? Make a Square Peg."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Click the photo above to be sent to the slideshow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

B<\/span>iologist Kerry Bloom studies minute details of the way cells divide. Structures just one one-thousandth of a millimeter long divide up DNA<\/span> as one cell splits into\u00a0two.<\/p>\n

For years, Bloom\u2019s been using a microscope to study the inner workings of cells. But microscopy can\u2019t tell him everything. You can\u2019t feel the texture in a microscope image, Bloom says. You can\u2019t turn it over, look at it from every\u00a0angle.<\/p>\n

Now, using a 3-D printer at the UNC<\/span> Kenan Science Library\u2019s Makerspace, Bloom and his colleagues study the microscopic world on a human scale. Holding a plastic model he and colleagues made of a spindle apparatus\u2014a tiny structure that moves chromosomes around during cell division\u2014Bloom understands better how cells read the genetic code: in bits and pieces, depending on how the fibers in the spindle twist and\u00a0turn.<\/p>\n

In this slideshow, see some of the ways that faculty, students, and staff at Carolina are using the campus\u2019s 3-D printers to do research, make art, and help\u00a0others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By Susan Hardy | Endeavors<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
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Learn more:<\/span><\/p>\n
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Equipment and software at Research Hub’s Kenan Science Library Makerspace<\/a><\/div>\n
A longer list of UNC makerspaces<\/div>\n
UNC Research Hub on Twitter<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biologist Kerry Bloom studies minute details of the way cells divide. Now, using a 3-D printer at the UNC Kenan Science Library\u2019s Makerspace, Bloom and his colleagues study the microscopic world on a human scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47148,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions\/47148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}