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3D μ F - Interactive Design Environment for Continuous Flow Microfluidic Devices

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: In this paper, the authors present an interactive tool for designing continuous flow microfluidic devices. 3DμF is the first completely open source interactive microfluidic system designer that readily supports state of the art design automation algorithms.

Harnessing robotic automation and web-based technologies to modernize scientific outreach

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: PLOS Biology summary: Technological breakthroughs in the past two decades have ushered in a new era of biomedical research, turning it into an information-rich and technology-driven science.

Multi-immersion open-top light-sheet microscope for high-throughput imaging of cleared tissues

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Nature Communications summary: Recent advances in optical clearing and light-sheet microscopy have provided unprecedented access to structural and molecular information from intact tissues. However, current light-sheet microscopes have imposed constraints on the size, shape, number of specimens, and compatibility with various clearing protocols.

On the Economic Value of Open Source Hardware – Case Study of an Open Source Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Journal of Open Hardware summary: Increasing maturation and dissemination of easy-to-use and affordable means of digital production (e.g. 3D printing), access to these in makerspaces and FabLabs as well as powerful tools and online platforms for virtual and collaborative product design enabled the highly efficient and innovative mode of open source to spill over from software to hardware.

Open Hardware: Open-Source MRI Scanners Could Bring Enormous Cost Savings

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: 3DPrint.com summary: None authors: Bridget O’Neal link to paper: https://3dprint.com/247312/researchers-discuss-potential-open-source-mris-enormous-savings-cost/ Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Open(G)PIAS: An Open-Source Solution for the Construction of a High-Precision Acoustic Startle Response Setup for Tinnitus Screening and Threshold Estimation in Rodents

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience summary: None authors: Richard Gerum, Hinrich Rahlfs, Matthias Streb, Patrick Krauss, Jannik Grimm, Claus Metzner, Konstantin Tziridis, Michael Günther, Holger Schulze, Walter Kellermann and Achim Schilling

Rodent Activity Detector (RAD), an Open Source Device for Measuring Activity in Rodent Home Cages

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: eNeuro summary: None authors: Bridget A. Matikainen-Ankney, Marcial Garmendia-Cedillos, Mohamed Ali, Jonathan Krynitsky, Ghadi Salem, Nanami L. Miyazaki, Tom Pohida and Alexxai V. Kravitz link to paper: https://www.

Scientific Community Image Forum: A discussion forum for scientific image software

Publishing date: 2019-07-04 Published on: PLOS Biology summary: Channel Editor Summary: In open source software, open code and free software is only the tip of the iceberg. Successful open source projects tend to have strong communities supporting both contributors as well as users - but this often comes with the hidden cost in volunteer (or staff) time and resources.

The WIRED Guide to Open Source Software

Publishing date: 2019-07-04 Published on: WIRED summary: Now open source is practically everywhere. Walmart uses open source software like the development platform Node, and it has opened up the code of its cloud management tool OneOps and its development platform Electrode.

Tungsten filled 3D printed field shaping devices for electron beam radiation therapy

Publishing date: 2019-06-19 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Lawrie Skinner, Benjamin P. Fahimian, Amy S. Yu link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217757 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com