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Democratizing science with the aid of parametric design and additive manufacturing: Design and fabrication of a versatile and low-cost optical instrument for scattering measurement

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.

MRIQC: Advancing the automatic prediction of image quality in MRI from unseen sites

Publishing date: 2017-09-25 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This paper presents the MRI Quality Control tool (MRIQC), a tool for extracting quality measures and fitting a binary (accept/exclude) classifier. The results show that the tool performs with high accuracy in intra-site prediction, but performance on unseen sites leaves space for improvement

A user-friendly, low-cost turbidostat with versatile growth rate estimation based on an extended Kalman filter

Publishing date: 2017-07-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: An easy to build, affordable open source turbidostat built with 3D printed parts and an Arduino. Additionaly it uses an algorithm based on Kalman filter that can be easily adapted for different uses such as bioreactors, studies of evolution or metabolic changes.

Feasibility of a 3D-printed anthropomorphic patient-specific head phantom for patient-specific quality assurance of intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Publishing date: 2017-07-20 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ji Woon Yea, Jae Won Park, Sung Kyu Kim, Dong Youn Kim, Jae Gu Kim, Chan Young Seo, Won Hyo Jeong, Man Youl Jeong, Se An Oh

The Language of Glove: Wireless gesture decoder with low-power and stretchable hybrid electronics

Publishing date: 2017-07-12 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This interesting paper shows that with $100 it is possible to construct a glove that uses include the ability to detect and translate sign language as well as to control a prosthetic hand.

A method for rapid 3D scanning and replication of large paleontological specimens

Publishing date: 2017-07-05 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Anshuman J. Das, Denise C. Murmann, Kenneth Cohrn, Ramesh Raskar link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179264 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Scientometric and patentometric analyses to determine the knowledge landscape in innovative technologies: The case of 3D bioprinting

Publishing date: 2017-06-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Knowledge clusters and expert drivers indicate that there is a research focus on tissue engineering including the fabrication of organs, bioinks and new 3D bioprinting systems.

A lab-on-phone instrument with varifocal microscope via a liquid-actuated aspheric lens (LAL)

Publishing date: 2017-06-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Yiin-Kuen Fuh, Zheng-Hong Lai, Li-Han Kau, Hung-Jui Huang link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179389 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

A versatile and low-cost open source pipetting robot for automation of toxicological and ecotoxicological bioassays

Publishing date: 2017-06-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: A pipetting robot built with off the shelf components and small number of custom parts, it not only makes tedious processes automated, but it can also be used for improvement of experimental designs.

3D printing and milling a real-time PCR device for infectious disease diagnostics

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.