OpenTrons: Open-Sourced Liquid Handling for Wet-Labs
An open-source project is seeking funding on Kickstarter to build a low cost liquid handling robot for small, medium and garage sized laboratories. The project...
Biotechnology
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Crowdfunding Call to Fund a Phone Microscope Lens Gets Huge Response
A Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a $15 lens that converts a normal phone into a microscope has received a huge response, with the...
Crowdfunding
Genomics XPRIZE Becomes a Victim of Innovation
Two weeks before the competition deadline the organizers of the Archon Genomics X-Prize announced its cancellation, citing that a competition wasn’t necessary to push innovation...
Biotechnology
Marblar’s Super-Biotin Challenge Calls for Brainstormers
Marblar in association with the University of Edinburgh presents the Super-Biotin Challenge. The Edinburgh University’s team that has developed a way of using a biotinidase...
Cancer Research
Microryza: Help Unhealable Wounds Heal
Millions of diabetic patients around the world suffer wounds that never heal, some that lead to amputation of limbs. Researchers at University of California-Riverside are...
Crowdfunding