Research Article

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.

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

A 3D-printed hand-powered centrifuge for molecular biology

Publishing date: 2019-06-17 Published on: PLOS Biology summary: None authors: Gaurav Byagathvalli, Aaron Pomerantz, Soham Sinha, Janet Standeven, M. Saad Bhamla link to paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000251 Icons made by catkuro from www.

An improved liquid–liquid separator based on an optically monitored porous capillary

Publishing date: 2019-06-17 Published on: Reaction Chemistry & Engineering summary: Channel Editor Summary: The authors report on an open hardware separator for immiscible liquids like oil and water using porous tubing and a number of off-the-shelf components or DIY parts.

Automation of fizzy extraction enabled by inexpensive open-source modules

Publishing date: 2019-06-17 Published on: Heliyon summary: Channel Editor Summary: This paper by Yang, Chang and Urban presents an automated system for preparing and analysing chemical components using fizzy extraction. Based on Arduino and other breakout boards, the system can be integrated to commercially available mass spectrometers, and outputs data in digital, as well as printed format.

Incu-Stream 1.0: An Open-Hardware Live-Cell Imaging System Based on Inverted Bright-Field Microscopy and Automated Mechanical Scanning for Real-Time and Long-Term Imaging of Microplates in Incubator

Publishing date: 2019-06-17 Published on: IEEE Access summary: Channel Editor Summary: The authors present a microplate-compatible inverted bright-field microscope system that can be used inside incubators to monitor cell growth in real-time and under controlled conditions.

Low-cost, sub-micron resolution, wide-field computational microscopy using opensource hardware

Publishing date: 2019-06-17 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: None authors: Tomas Aidukas, Regina Eckert, Andrew R. Harvey, Laura Waller & Pavan C. Konda link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43845-9 Icons made by catkuro from www.

OSA | Open-source do-it-yourself multi-color fluorescence smartphone microscopy

Publishing date: 2019-06-17 Published on: Biomedical Optics Express summary: None authors: Yulung Sung, Fernando Campa, and Wei-Chuan Shih link to paper: https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-8-11-5075 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

ColiCoords: A Python package for the analysis of bacterial fluorescence microscopy data

Publishing date: 2019-06-04 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy studies of bacteria provide unique insights into the mechanisms of cellular processes and protein machineries in ways that are unrivalled by any other technique.

Machine learning to help researchers evaluate biases in clinical trials: a prospective, randomized user study

Publishing date: 2019-05-23 Published on: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making summary: Assessing risks of bias in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is an important but laborious task when conducting systematic reviews.