The sale includes several objects that conjure up the Playboy (nyse: PLA - news - people ) mystique.
In the second stage, lactic-acid molecules are linked into long chains, or polymers, in chemical-reaction vessels, to produce PLA. What Dr Lee and his colleagues have succeeded in doing, as they report in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, is to produce PLA directly, in a one-stage process, in bacteria.
It means Caroline Pla, the 11-year old previously written about here who spent the last two years on the Bucks County, PA, Romans junior varsity CYO football team and who became the poster child for this discrimination controversy when she was banned from playing further based solely on her gender, can sign up for the varsity squad and try for another All-Star season.
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ConAgra and DuPont tried a PLA venture in the mid-1990s, but failed to get the biochemistry right in early tries.
The Port of London Authority (PLA) imposes a 12-knot (14-mph) limit west of Wapping, which means that boats can show their exhilarating 30-knot cruising speed only on the eastern stretches of the river.
Rather impressively, just like its little brother, the CubeX relies on cartridges instead of spools for dispensing plastic -- either ABS or PLA. 3D Systems even calls them "smart cartridges" since it can distinguish between the two plastics and adjust the properties accordingly.
Enjoy the relaxed, open-air atmosphere of a 1920s Thai home at the Issaya Siamese Club, where local celebrity chef Ian Kittichai turns out dishes seasoned with herbs grown in the house garden, such as red chilli-glazed seabass (pla aob prik) and jasmine flower flan (kanom dok mali).
After 18 months studying Cargill's PLA, Dow signed on as a 50-50 partner.
Cordoba is operated by George Pla, a California businessman and longtime Democratic fund-raiser.
The heads operate along the X and Y axes, while the build platform (generally heated in the case of ABS and unheated for PLA) moves downward, allowing the glue gun-like extruders to build up the thin layers of plastic.
Fluid Interfaces Group Research Assistant Pol Pla i Conesa presented several such scenarios for his Display Blocks, which consist of 128 x 128-pixel OLED panels.
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Cargill's NatureWorks has a four-year-old factory in Blair, Neb. that can turn out 300 million pounds of PLA plastic each year, but it is said to run at only half that capacity.
Sneaky but dogged, the now-41-year-old Gruber came close to losing funding for his project several times: Some Cargill brass thought PLA would never be more than a neat trick, and plastics buyers said he would never get the cost low enough.
The extruder is designed specifically for use with MakerBot PLA, a new plastic material based on corn, that Bre Pettis claims wont expand when exposed to the heat -- which means it wont contract when it cools, leading to smoother printed objects and less cracking.
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