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Robotic microscopy for everyone: the OpenFlexure Microscope

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: bioRxiv summary: Channel Editor Summary: For this update the “editor’s pick” highlights two papers describing two different tools that leverage previous open designs, showing in practice the benefits of using open source hardware for scientific tool development.

SweepStat: A Build-It-Yourself, Two-Electrode Potentiostat for Macroelectrode and Ultramicroelectrode Studies

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: J. Chem. Educ summary: None authors: Matthew W. Glasscott, Matthew D. Verber, Jackson R. Hall, Andrew D. Pendergast, Collin J. McKinney, Jeffrey E. Dick link to paper: https://pubs.

The hottest thing in robotics is an open source project you've never heard of

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: TechRepublic summary: This article provides a summary of the history and future directions of “https://www.ros.org/">ROS<, the Robot Operating System. This project might not be well known, but it’s increasingly important for driving the robots used for industrial automation.

The smfBox: an open-source platform for single-molecule FRET

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: bioRxiv summary: Single-molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) is a powerful technique capable of resolving both relative and absolute distances within and between structurally dynamic biomolecules.

Want To Build An Open Source Hardware And Software Robot?

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: Design News summary: The 2020 Consumer Electronics Show “https://www.ces.tech/">CES< saw many engineering marvels revealed for the first time. At the conference “https://www.pollen-robotics.com/">Pollen Robotics< displayed their “Reachy” robot.

µPump: An open-source pressure pump for precision fluid handling in microfluidics

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: HardwareX summary: None authors: Run Ze Gao, Marie Hébert, Jan Huissoon, Carolyn L.Ren link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067220300043 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

‘We need a people’s cryo-EM.’ Scientists hope to bring revolutionary microscope to the masses

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: Science summary: In 1962 LMB researchers won a Nobel Prize for using x-ray crystallography to decipher the first atomic structures for proteins. One of LMB’s most recent Nobel laureates, Richard Henderson, helped to develop cryo-EM a technique that bypasses the difficult process of forming crystals from proteins.

Orbit Image Analysis: An open-source whole slide image analysis tool

Publishing date: 2020-02-05 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Manuel Stritt, Anna K. Stalder, Enrico Vezzali link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007313 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

LeMaRns: A Length-based Multi-species analysis by numerical simulation in R

Publishing date: 2020-02-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael A. Spence, Hayley J. Bannister, Johnathan E. Ball, Paul J. Dolder, Christopher A. Griffiths, Robert B. Thorpe link to paper: 10.

An accurate, precise, and affordable light emitting diode spectrophotometer for drinking water and other testing with limited resources

Publishing date: 2020-01-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael W. Prairie, Seth H. Frisbie, K. Kesava Rao, Anyamanee H. Saksri, Shreyas Parbat, Erika J. Mitchell link to paper: 10.