3D printing companies hope to help produce tens of millions of swabs for the American public. It’s a race against time. The country needs tens of millions of nasal swabs if it’s going to test enough ...

Cover photo of Carbon’s prototype COVID-19 test swabs. All but one of the designs passed patient testing at Stanford and Beth Israel hospitals; Carbon eventually chose a hybrid of the two on the right ...

Meet the CEOs, engineers and doctors reimagining the way we make test swabs on an industrial scale. A s the novel coronavirus spread rapidly across the United States this March, testing was lacking.