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Month: November 2018

Where the research money goes

November 21, 2018December 30, 2020 LabOnTheCheap

Dr. Joe Alvin wrote in to let us know about an interesting blog post on the finances of science by Dr. Michael Johnson, from the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona. The article lays out how the proceeds from a NIH grant are spent running a lab. The grant discussed worth ~2 million dollars […]

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A 3D-printed Droplet Generator

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 LabOnTheCheap

This week the Harris Lab at Brown put up a paper on the creation of a 3D-printed droplet generator. The system is based off a previously published design by David Harris which generates droplets on the scale of 1 mm. This new system now provides ample open-source instructions, and is fabricated with a 3D printer bringing the […]

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Accurate Enzymatic Assays in PCR Tubes

November 1, 2018December 30, 2020 LabOnTheCheap

To achieve reproducible findings in many enzymatic assays, the substrate and sample must be incubated at specific temperatures without evaporation. If you don’t want to pay thousands for a 96-well plate incubator, than there are two main ways to do this: -The first is preparing 1.5mL Eppendorf tubes and thoroughly vortexing the final solution to […]

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