Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Baden, Tom ^a,b   Chagas, Andre Maia ^a,b,c,d   Gage, Greg ^e   Marzullo, Timothy ^e   Prieto Godino, Lucia L ^b,f   Euler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b TReND in Africa gUG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Backyard Brains   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAREER PLANNING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LABORATORY DEVICE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; POLICY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FEMALE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LABORATORY; MALE; SOFTWARE; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LABORATORIES; MALE; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84926363165     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002086     Document Type: Article

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