Publishing date: 2017-06-07
Published on: Nature Biotechnology
summary: Metafluidics, an open-source, community-driven repository that hosts digital design files, assembly specifications, and open-source software to enable users to build, configure, and operate a microfluidic device.
Publishing date: 2017-06-06
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: The paper describes a DIY affordable real-time PCR system, that works with one eppendorf tube at a time. Intentionally designed this way, the system is optimised for infectious disease diagnostics, and to be simple to build and maintain.
Publishing date: 2017-05-31
Published on: Thingiverse
summary: This DIYbio 3D printed centrifuge is a safe and fun piece of lab equipment, if built and operated carefully .
authors: F.Lab
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Publishing date: 2017-05-31
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: To lower the barrier to entry and provide the best options when aiming to 3D print an anatomical model from medical images, the authors provide an overview of relevant free and open-source image segmentation tools as well as 3D printing technologies.
Publishing date: 2017-05-19
Published on: Scientific Reports
summary: The ability to reliably and precisely deliver picolitre volumes is an important component of biological research. The authors describe a high-performance, low-cost, open hardware pressure ejection system (Openspritzer), which can be constructed from off the shelf components.
Publishing date: 2017-05-17
Published on: Journal of Neural Engineering
summary: This paper describes a miniature microscope for single-photon fluorescence imaging in freely behaving animals made from 3D printed parts and off-the-shelf components.
Publishing date: 2017-05-11
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: A three-dimensional (3D)-printed customized bolus (3D bolus) can be used for radiotherapy application to irregular surfaces. However, bolus fabrication based on computed tomography (CT) scans is complicated and also delivers unwanted irradiation.
Publishing date: 2017-05-04
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: This study suggests that a 3D-printed phantom simulating a high-density (about 1.4 g/cm3) organ can be created based on CT images and that a developed 3D printed spine phantom could be utilized in patient-specific quality assurance for stereotactic body radiation therapy.
Publishing date: 2017-04-28
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: This paper describes a method that uses active contours to semi-automatically track body and leg segments from video image sequences of unmarked, freely behaving D.
Publishing date: 2017-04-19
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: InMAP (Intervention Model for Air Pollution) offers an alternative to comprehensive air quality models for estimating the air pollution health impacts of emission reductions and other potential interventions.