To manufacture the tests, a scientist feeds a sheet of chromatography paper into a generic Xerox office printer, which prints a layer of colored wax onto the paper.

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Using a handheld glue gun, and armed with a home-cooked slurry of polyethylene and candle wax, he built the shape layer by layer.

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