Publishing date: 2018-01-01
Published on: Choose a license
summary: A tool from GitHub helping developers choose an open source license for their source code.
authors: GitHun, Inc.
link to paper: https://choosealicense.
Publishing date: 2017-12-30
Published on: Designs
summary: An open source toolkit for science is useful, but an open source toolkit that follows formal design principles might be even more so - improving interoperability, reproducibility and quality of designs.
Publishing date: 2017-12-28
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: These authors took up the challenge of creating a thermometer for accurate measurements of biological and chemical samples on the microliter or nanoliter scale.
Publishing date: 2017-12-05
Published on: GOSH News
summary: The US National Science Foundation (NSF) recently published a call for suggestions of research areas that could benefit from ‘networks of networks’ between US and international researchers.
Publishing date: 2017-12-01
Published on: BioBricks Foundation
summary: The Open Material Transfer Agreement (OpenMTA) is a simple, standardized legal tool that enables individuals and organizations to share their materials on an open basis.
Publishing date: 2017-12-01
Published on: AfricaOSH
summary: AfricaOSH is a gathering for everyone interested in Open Science & Hardware as a means to achieve locally adapted, culturally relevant, technologically and economically feasible production in Africa; as an alternative to traditional Intellectual Property (IP )and closed knowledge systems; and to understand its potential for development and collaboration across Africa, especially by reducing barriers to entry in education, research and manufacturing.
Publishing date: 2017-11-25
Published on: TechRadar
summary: On the face of it, Dr Bowman’s story is that he’s on a three-year project to build a general-purpose 3D-printed microscope, but his ambitions are bigger and, ultimately, he wants to create 3D-printable ‘building blocks’ that others can use to make affordable, new experimental apparatus.
Publishing date: 2017-11-15
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: In this exciting design, the authors present a large-field of view fluorescence chamber for visualisation of, well, anything that fluoresceses. Using LEDs and low-cost acrylics the system is set-up to allow for convenient simultaneous imaging in multiple colours using an RGB camera.
Publishing date: 2017-11-07
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: This paper focuses on the application of rapid prototyping techniques using additive manufacturing in combination with parametric design to create low-cost, yet accurate and reliable instruments.
Publishing date: 2017-10-31
Published on: Podtail
summary: This episode Science: Disrupt chatted to Bethan Wolfenden, the co-founder of Bento Bioworks, a biotech startup that has created a ‘laptop size laboratory’. This kit allows the user to perform simple DNA analysis and dramatically reduces the cost of the components you’d need to analyse samples, thus lowering the barrier to entry for molecular biology.