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PLoS One
January 2025
Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Soil imaging in the field and laboratory has greatly advanced our understanding of plant root systems. Soil fungi function as important plant symbionts and decomposers of complex organic material in soil environments. For fungal hyphae, however, the application of soil imaging remains scarce, limiting our understanding of hyphal systems in soil.
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January 2025
Cell Line Development, WuXi Biologics, 288 Fute Zhong Road, Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, Shanghai 200131, China.
Laboratory automation in the biopharmaceutical industry as a rule requires contracted service from highly professional automation solution provider, at times involving the purchase and development of specialized or customized hardware and software, which can be proprietary and expensive. Alternatively, with the availability of open-source software customized for automation, it is possible to automate existing laboratory instruments in a do-it-yourself (DIY), low-cost, and flexible fashion. In this work, we used an open-source scripting language, AutoIt, to integrate an existing microplate imager into an existing automation platform that is already equipped with a 4-axis robotic arm and an automated incubator, to achieve automation of the imaging procedure in our cell line development workflow.
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December 2024
PROEPLA, Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering, Campus Terra, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain.
Weather and soil water dictate farm operations such as irrigation scheduling. Low-cost and open-source agricultural monitoring stations are an emerging alternative to commercially available monitoring stations because they are often built from components using open-source, do-it-yourself (DIY) platforms and technologies. For irrigation management in an experimental vineyard located in Quiroga (Lugo, Spain), we faced the challenge of installing a low-cost environmental and soil parameter monitoring station composed of several nodes measuring air temperature and relative humidity, soil temperature, soil matric potential, and soil water content.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTalanta
March 2025
Sustainable Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory, Department of Agrifood, Environmental and Animal Science, University of Udine, via Cotonificio 108, I-33100, Udine, Italy. Electronic address:
A simple and easily replicable technique is here presented for assembling planar electrochemical cells based on gold-leaf electrodes using ordinary tools and a do-it-yourself approach. These devices have been profitably used to perform spectroelectrochemical measurements in the reflectance mode demonstrating for the first time how the use of gold-leaf electrodes can offer a viable and low cost alternative to traditionally used electrochemical platforms assembled by gold vapor deposition or screen printing. After optimization of fabrication parameters, the electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical characterization of these cells was performed by using potassium hexacyanoferrate(II) as redox probe.
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October 2024
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, USA.
Filtration performance of do-it-yourself (DIY) box fan filters deployed across a university campus was assessed over an academic year. Four DIY air filters were constructed from box fans and air filters with a minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) of 13 and deployed in four spaces (two laboratories that include sources of particles and two offices). They were operated 9 hours daily with a programmable timer and were continuously monitored with power meters.
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