That meant recruiting two clever instruments with long-winded names a differential scanning calorimeter, which measures the thermal properties of the mixture as it is sorted, and a nuclear-magnetic resonance spectrometer, which measures its chemical properties.

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And Nikon Instruments is providing his team with a fascinating all-in-one cell incubator and scanning device to make it happen.

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