Glassblowing Makes a Comeback In Science
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The 2000 year old art helps science
In a small room at the back of Merck’s gleaming corporate campus, the 2,000-year-old art of glassblowing thrives.
Here, glassblowers Wayne Dockery and Harold “Heimey” Heimback work with scientists to create devices that help develop the latest medicines, as well as the first-ever automated tick feeder and a flea counter (for agricultural research) that allows only one flea to move through a passage at a time.
The flea counter, shaped somewhat like an hourglass, has a narrow “waist” blown to just the width of one flea. The tick feeder allows scientists to nourish the insects without keeping a live animal in the lab.
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