Foldscope live demo of living organism
I had the opportunity last week to present in front of few dozen industrial scientists visiting stanford. The catch was I only had less than 10 minutes! If I had to share one way that the foldscope...
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An author-based review of the Journal of Open Research Software
The Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) is an open access journal, which publishes peer reviewed software papers. Software papers describe open source software for research with high reuse pot...
Read ItPre-publication review of: Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses
This is a pre-publication review of the manuscript entitled: “Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses” by Salter et. al, 2014 http://www.biomed...
Read ItAllotropic halogens.
Allotropes are differing structural forms of the elements. The best known example is that of carbon, which comes as diamond and graphite, along with the relatively recently discovered fullerenes an...
Read ItDTI Tutorial 3 - Fiber Tractography
Fiber tractography is a very elegant method that can be used to delineate individual fiber tracts from diffusion images. This tutorial will help you in a step-by-step way trough the process. In...
Read ItProcedure: Lateral Canthotomy
A 21 year old man was minding his own business on a street corner, when out of nowhere two dudes just jumped him. His primary injury appears to be to his right eye. He is complaining of a lot of ey...
Read ItACS AMA: Hi Reddit! I am Neelesh Patankar, Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Ask me anything about rough surfaces for non- or super-wetting, or other novel phase change properties!
ACS AMA Hi Reddit! My name is Neelesh A. Patankar, and I am the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence and Associate Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northw...
Read ItOn the Unification of the Constants of Nature
A short essay that unifies gravity and electromagnetism with a system of natural units that are based upon a Helium nucleus (Alpha particle). Alternative definitions for Planck's constant and th...
Read ItIs sex really necessary?
Sex has long been an intriguing topic for biologists. Traditional sexual reproduction requires a large amount of energy and even more energy when we consider the time to find a right partner. That ...
Read ItPrecipitous delivery in the ED
You are chatting with your triage nurses on a slow night shift when a car pulls up to the front doors. A 34 year old woman G5P4 at 39 weeks gestation is wheeled up to triage by a slightly panicked ...
Read ItEmbracing Participatory Culture in Education
GitHub is on the brink of growing from a platform for software projects, and into a mainstream collaboration platform for other domains as well. An unexpected area where GitHub's collaborative work...
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