Chemist Lee Cronin is working on a 3D printer that, instead of objects, is able to print molecules. An exciting potential long-term application: printing your own medicine using chemical inks.

Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of in...

Hiring People with Differing Abilities Is Not Altruism, It is Good Business. The United States faces a labor crisis and part of the solution will come from hiring people with disabilities. While we could argue that hiring people with disabilities is the right thing to do, we posit a simple idea: hiring people with differing abilities is not alt...

We often look at people with differing abilities (a term we prefer over 'disabilities') and focus on what society needs to do for them. John and Mark X. Cronin, a father-son business team, show that we have the question backwards. We should be asking how people with differing abilities can help us. John, who has Down Syndrome, and his father Mar...