A DIY CO2 Incubator for just $350

Growing cells?  Need an incubator or a bioreactor? These things generally  cost upwards of five grand, but here Andrew Pelling’s lab has made a DIY CO2 reactor for around $350. It might look a bit janky, but it’s a legit piece of equipment when you get into it. The website includes detailed instructions, cost analysis, […]

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Make Your Own Light Sheet Microscope

Thinking about light sheet microscopy? Openspim.org gives you fantastically detailed assembly instructions to create your very own Selective Plane Illumination Microscope. Credit to Dr. Guillaume Duclos for pointing this resource out. Don’t forget to check out the paper on this project put out by Peter Pitrone, Johannes Schindelin, Luke Stuyvenberg, Stephan Preibisch, Michael Weber, Kevin […]

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PuffAdder: A DIY Picospritzer

No not the snake. This is the name Joe Raimondo’s DIY picospritzer, which delivers picoliter to nanoliter “spritzes” of liquid in short pulses.  His blog gives a great step-by-step guide to building one. And if you’re looking for something a little more robust, check out their paper on Openspritzer in Nature where they build and […]

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