{"id":238073,"date":"2026-05-31T02:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/researchers-3d-print-key-components-for-a-point-of-care-mass-spectrometer"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:12:04","slug":"researchers-3d-print-key-components-for-a-point-of-care-mass-spectrometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/researchers-3d-print-key-components-for-a-point-of-care-mass-spectrometer","title":{"rendered":"Researchers 3D print key components for a point-of-care mass spectrometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-3d-print-key-components-for-a-point-of-care-mass-spectrometer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2024<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Caption :<\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have 3D printed a miniature ionizer, which is a key component of a mass spectrometer. The new miniature ionizer could someday enable an affordable, in-home mass spectrometer for health monitoring. Pictured are parts of the new device, including a green printed circuit board (PCB) with orange casing on top. Under the casing is a black rectangle where the electrospray emitter is located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2024 Caption : MIT researchers have 3D printed a miniature ionizer, which is a key component of a mass spectrometer. The new miniature ionizer could someday enable an affordable, in-home mass spectrometer for health monitoring. Pictured are parts of the new device, including a green printed circuit board (PCB) with orange casing on top. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}