Medium Skill Barrier
Systems grouped by derived engineering and skill barrier from corpus metadata.
- Papers
- 49
- Tools
- 15
- Assets
- 25
- Levels
- Medium
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3D bioprinting of collagen-based high-resolution internally perfusable scaffolds for engineering fully biologic tissue systems
Organ-on-a-chip and microfluidic systems have improved the translational relevance of in vitro systems; however, current manufacturing approaches impart limitations on materials selection, non-native mechanical proper…
A high performance open-source syringe extruder optimized for extrusion and retraction during FRESH 3D bioprinting
High-performance open-source syringe extruder for extrusion/retraction control in FRESH 3D bioprinting
A Low-Cost, Open-Source 3D Printer for Multimaterial and High-Throughput Direct Ink Writing of Soft and Living Materials
Fully DIY (not retrofit) open-source 3D printer for multimaterial, high-throughput direct ink writing
A robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector
Liquid manipulation is the foundation of most laboratory processes.
A simple method of fabricating mask-free microfluidic devices for biological analysis
We report a simple, low-cost, rapid, and mask-free method to fabricate two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) microfluidic chip for biological analysis researches.
An open source extrusion bioprinter based on the E3D motion system and tool changer to enable FRESH and multimaterial bioprinting
Bioprinting is increasingly used to create complex tissue constructs for an array of research applications, and there are also increasing efforts to print tissues for transplantation.
An Open-Source 3D Bioprinter Using Direct Light Processing for Tissue Engineering Applications
The demand for organ transplantation continues to rise worldwide, intensifying the gap between supply and demand and driving research in tissue engineering (TE).
Analytical Measurements and Efficient Process Generation Using a Dual–Arm Robot Equipped with Electronic Pipettes
The continued growth in life sciences is being accompanied by the constantly rising demand for robotic systems.
BioCloneBot: A versatile, low-cost, and open-source automated liquid handler
Liquid handler systems can provide significant benefits to researchers by automating laboratory work, however, their unaffordable price provides a steep barrier to entry.
Design and implementation of a low cost bio-printer modification, allowing for switching between plastic and gel extrusion
Due to the high cost of bioprinters they are not feasible for proof of concept experiments or educational purposes.
Design and Implementation of an Accessible 3D Bioprinter: Benchmarking the Performance of a Home-Made Bioprinter against a Professional Bioprinter
The tremendous application potential of 3D bioprinting in the biomedical field is witnessed by the ever-increasing interest in this technology over the past few years.
Design and Validation of a Piston-Driven Syringe-Extrusion Bioprinter Using an FDM Frame
Direct ink writing (DIW) deposits viscous, shear-responsive inks at low temperature, enabling hydrogels and cell-laden bioinks for biomedical fabrication.
Design and Validation of an Open-Hardware Print-Head for Bioprinting Application
In the last decades drop-on-demand inkjet technology played an increasing role in industrial and medical applications.
Design of an Open-Source, Low-Cost Bioink and Food Melt Extrusion 3D Printer
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is an increasingly popular manufacturing technique that allows highly complex objects to be fabricated with no retooling costs.
Designing cost-effective open-source multihead 3D bioprinters
For the past decade, additive manufacturing has resulted in significant advances toward fabricating anatomic-size patient-specific scaffolds for tissue models and regenerative medicine.
Development of a high-performance open-source 3D bioprinter
The application of 3D printing to biological research has provided the tissue engineering community with a method for organizing cells and biological materials into complex 3D structures.
Development of a microfluidic-assisted open-source 3D bioprinting system (MOS3S) for the engineering of hierarchical tissues
crosslinking and scaffolds fabrication. The coupling of 3D printed syringe pumps with the motion control system is used for driving the tunable extrusion of inks for the fabrication of centimeter scale hierarchical la…
Extrusion-Based Bioprinting in a Cost-Effective Bioprinter
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting has emerged as a revolutionary approach in the life sciences, combining multiple disciplines such as computer engineering, materials science, robotics, and biomedical engineering.
Fabrication and validation of an affordable DIY coaxial 3D extrusion bioprinter
3D bioprinting has emerged as a promising technology in tissue engineering, allowing for the precise fabrication of complex structures to mimic native tissues.
FINDUS: An Open-Source 3D Printable Liquid-Handling Workstation for Laboratory Automation in Life Sciences
3D-printed laboratory devices can enable ambitious research purposes even at a low-budget level.
Homebrew photolithography for the rapid and low-cost,“Do It Yourself” prototyping of microfluidic devices
Photolithography is the foundational process at the root of micro-electromechanical (MEMS) and microfluidic systems manufacture.
Leveraging flexible pipette-based tool changes to transform liquid handling systems into dual-function sample preparation and imaging platforms
In soft materials synthesis, rapid self-assembly and poor mechanical strength often limit the applicability of experimental characterization techniques.
Low-cost, versatile, and highly reproducible microfabrication pipeline to generate 3D-printed customised cell culture devices with complex designs
Cell culture devices, such as microwells and microfluidic chips, are designed to increase the complexity of cell-based models while retaining control over culture conditions and have become indispensable platforms for…
Mask-free laser lithography for rapid and low-cost microfluidic device fabrication
Microfluidics has become recognized as a powerful platform technology associated with a constantly increasing array of applications across the life sciences.
Nydus One Syringe Extruder (NOSE): A Prusa i3 3D printer conversion for bioprinting applications
Bioprinting, combined with other tissue engineering techniques, is a promising method to create engineered tissues or standardized 3D cell culturing models.
Open-source cell culture automation system with integrated cell counting for passaging microplate cultures
Tissue culture in 96-well microplates is conventionally a tedious, highly manual process sensitive to individual technique and experimenter error.
Open-source hybrid 3D-bioprinter for simultaneous printing of thermoplastics and hydrogels
organ model development. Various 3D-bioprinting technologies and systems have been developed and are partly commercially available.
Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics
Microfluidic devices have the potential to automate and miniaturize biological experiments, but open-source sharing of device designs has lagged behind sharing of other resources such as software.
OpenWorkstation: A modular open-source technology for automated in vitro workflows
Automation liberates scientific staff from repetitive tasks, decreases the probability of human error and consequently enhances the reproducibility of lab experiments.
PyLabRobot: An open-source, hardware-agnostic interface for liquid-handling robots and accessories
Abstract Liquid handling robots are often limited by proprietary programming interfaces that are only compatible with a single type of robot and operating system, restricting method sharing and slowing development.
Srishti: a custom-built laser-assisted 3D bioprinter for fabricating high-resolution biological constructs
Laser-assisted bioprinting is a nozzle-free, non-contact technique that employs drop-on-demand technology for the fabrication of high-resolution three dimensional (3D) structures for various applications including tis…
The Enderstruder: An accessible open-source syringe extruder compatible with Ender series 3D printers
A syringe extruder designed specifically for Ender 3D printers that can be printed and built for about $55.
The ‘bIUreactor’: an open-source 3D tissue research platform
We developed the open-source bIUreactor research platform for studying 3D structured tissues.
Hydrogel Patterns in Microfluidic Devices by Do-It-Yourself UV-Photolithography Suitable for Very Large-Scale Integration
The interest in large-scale integrated (LSI) microfluidic systems that perform high-throughput biological and chemical laboratory investigations on a single chip is steadily growing.
Adapting a Low-Cost and Open-Source Commercial Pipetting Robot for Nanoliter Liquid Handling
Low-volume liquid handling capabilities in bioanalytical workflows can dramatically improve sample processing efficiency and reduce reagent costs, yet many commercial nanoliter liquid handlers cost tens of thousands o…
mSLAb–An open-source masked stereolithography (mSLA) bioprinter
3D bioprinting is a tissue engineering approach using additive manufacturing to fabricate tissue equivalents for regenerative medicine or medical drug testing.
LusoBioMaker: A low-cost 3D bioprinter with multi-extrusion and contour printing capabilities for thermo- and photocurable hydrogels towards complex tissue fabrication
3D bioprinting is an expanding field that allows for the design of intricate structures using multiple materials and living cells.
BIO-SPEC: An open-source bench-top parallel bioreactor system
The BIO-SPEC is an open-source, cost-effective, and modular bench-top bioreactor system designed for batch, sequencing batch, and chemostat cultivation.
Technical upgrade of an open-source liquid handler to support bacterial colony screening
The optimization of genetically engineered biological constructs is a key step to deliver high-impact biotechnological applications.
Enhanced Growth of Bacterial Cells in a Smart 3D Printed Bioreactor
In the last decade, there has been a notable advancement in diverse bioreactor types catering to various applications.
A Custom Ultra-Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter Supports Cell Growth and Differentiation
Advances in 3D bioprinting have allowed the use of stem cells along with biomaterials and growth factors toward novel tissue engineering approaches.
Teach your microscope how to print: low-cost and rapid-iteration microfabrication for biology
. Our protocol drastically reduces material costs compared to conventional methods and enables design-to-device turnaround within a day.
Automated Liquid Handler from a 3D Printer
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Efforts to encourage laboratory automation through student access to and usage of commercial equipment are hampered by prohibitive acquisition costs.
Establishment of low-cost laboratory automation processes using AutoIt and 4-axis robots
In most small laboratories, many processes are not yet automated because existing laboratory automation solutions are usually expensive and inflexible to use.
EvoBot: An Open-Source, Modular, Liquid Handling Robot for Scientific Experiments
Commercial liquid handling robots are rarely appropriate when tasks change often, which is the case in the early stages of biochemical research.
An open-source programmable smart pipette for portable cell separation and counting
Microfluidics offers great potential for biomedical applications, but the complexity, inconvenience, and low pumping equipment accessibility of operating microfluidic devices have limited their widespread use.
3D Printing of Individualized Microfluidic Chips with DLP-Based Printer
Microfluidic chips have shown their potential for applications in fields such as chemistry and biology, and 3D printing is increasingly utilized as the fabrication method for microfluidic chips.
Melt Electrowriting of Nylon‐12 Microfibers with an Open‐Source 3D Printer
Melt-electrowriting printer built on the open-source MEWron platform (a converted Voron 0.1 3D printer), with a heated flat or cylindrical collector for printing nylon-12 microfibres and tubes.
Modular microfluidic systems cast from 3D-printed molds for imaging leukocyte adherence to differentially treated endothelial cultures
Microfluidic systems are very useful for in vitro studies of interactions between blood cells and vascular endothelial cells under flow, and several commercial solutions exist.
All linked papers
3D bioprinting of collagen-based high-resolution internally perfusable scaffolds for engineering fully biologic tissue systems
Organ-on-a-chip and microfluidic systems have improved the translational relevance of in vitro systems; however, current manufacturing approaches impart limitations on materials selection, non-native mechanical proper…
A high performance open-source syringe extruder optimized for extrusion and retraction during FRESH 3D bioprinting
High-performance open-source syringe extruder for extrusion/retraction control in FRESH 3D bioprinting
A Low-Cost, Open-Source 3D Printer for Multimaterial and High-Throughput Direct Ink Writing of Soft and Living Materials
Fully DIY (not retrofit) open-source 3D printer for multimaterial, high-throughput direct ink writing
A robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector
Liquid manipulation is the foundation of most laboratory processes.
A simple method of fabricating mask-free microfluidic devices for biological analysis
We report a simple, low-cost, rapid, and mask-free method to fabricate two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) microfluidic chip for biological analysis researches.
An open source extrusion bioprinter based on the E3D motion system and tool changer to enable FRESH and multimaterial bioprinting
Bioprinting is increasingly used to create complex tissue constructs for an array of research applications, and there are also increasing efforts to print tissues for transplantation.
An Open-Source 3D Bioprinter Using Direct Light Processing for Tissue Engineering Applications
The demand for organ transplantation continues to rise worldwide, intensifying the gap between supply and demand and driving research in tissue engineering (TE).
Analytical Measurements and Efficient Process Generation Using a Dual–Arm Robot Equipped with Electronic Pipettes
The continued growth in life sciences is being accompanied by the constantly rising demand for robotic systems.
BioCloneBot: A versatile, low-cost, and open-source automated liquid handler
Liquid handler systems can provide significant benefits to researchers by automating laboratory work, however, their unaffordable price provides a steep barrier to entry.
Design and implementation of a low cost bio-printer modification, allowing for switching between plastic and gel extrusion
Due to the high cost of bioprinters they are not feasible for proof of concept experiments or educational purposes.
Design and Implementation of an Accessible 3D Bioprinter: Benchmarking the Performance of a Home-Made Bioprinter against a Professional Bioprinter
The tremendous application potential of 3D bioprinting in the biomedical field is witnessed by the ever-increasing interest in this technology over the past few years.
Design and Validation of a Piston-Driven Syringe-Extrusion Bioprinter Using an FDM Frame
Direct ink writing (DIW) deposits viscous, shear-responsive inks at low temperature, enabling hydrogels and cell-laden bioinks for biomedical fabrication.
Design and Validation of an Open-Hardware Print-Head for Bioprinting Application
In the last decades drop-on-demand inkjet technology played an increasing role in industrial and medical applications.
Design of an Open-Source, Low-Cost Bioink and Food Melt Extrusion 3D Printer
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is an increasingly popular manufacturing technique that allows highly complex objects to be fabricated with no retooling costs.
Designing cost-effective open-source multihead 3D bioprinters
For the past decade, additive manufacturing has resulted in significant advances toward fabricating anatomic-size patient-specific scaffolds for tissue models and regenerative medicine.
Development of a high-performance open-source 3D bioprinter
The application of 3D printing to biological research has provided the tissue engineering community with a method for organizing cells and biological materials into complex 3D structures.
Development of a microfluidic-assisted open-source 3D bioprinting system (MOS3S) for the engineering of hierarchical tissues
crosslinking and scaffolds fabrication. The coupling of 3D printed syringe pumps with the motion control system is used for driving the tunable extrusion of inks for the fabrication of centimeter scale hierarchical la…
Extrusion-Based Bioprinting in a Cost-Effective Bioprinter
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting has emerged as a revolutionary approach in the life sciences, combining multiple disciplines such as computer engineering, materials science, robotics, and biomedical engineering.
Fabrication and validation of an affordable DIY coaxial 3D extrusion bioprinter
3D bioprinting has emerged as a promising technology in tissue engineering, allowing for the precise fabrication of complex structures to mimic native tissues.
FINDUS: An Open-Source 3D Printable Liquid-Handling Workstation for Laboratory Automation in Life Sciences
3D-printed laboratory devices can enable ambitious research purposes even at a low-budget level.
Homebrew photolithography for the rapid and low-cost,“Do It Yourself” prototyping of microfluidic devices
Photolithography is the foundational process at the root of micro-electromechanical (MEMS) and microfluidic systems manufacture.
Leveraging flexible pipette-based tool changes to transform liquid handling systems into dual-function sample preparation and imaging platforms
In soft materials synthesis, rapid self-assembly and poor mechanical strength often limit the applicability of experimental characterization techniques.
Low-cost, versatile, and highly reproducible microfabrication pipeline to generate 3D-printed customised cell culture devices with complex designs
Cell culture devices, such as microwells and microfluidic chips, are designed to increase the complexity of cell-based models while retaining control over culture conditions and have become indispensable platforms for…
Mask-free laser lithography for rapid and low-cost microfluidic device fabrication
Microfluidics has become recognized as a powerful platform technology associated with a constantly increasing array of applications across the life sciences.
Nydus One Syringe Extruder (NOSE): A Prusa i3 3D printer conversion for bioprinting applications
Bioprinting, combined with other tissue engineering techniques, is a promising method to create engineered tissues or standardized 3D cell culturing models.
Open-source cell culture automation system with integrated cell counting for passaging microplate cultures
Tissue culture in 96-well microplates is conventionally a tedious, highly manual process sensitive to individual technique and experimenter error.
Open-source hybrid 3D-bioprinter for simultaneous printing of thermoplastics and hydrogels
organ model development. Various 3D-bioprinting technologies and systems have been developed and are partly commercially available.
Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics
Microfluidic devices have the potential to automate and miniaturize biological experiments, but open-source sharing of device designs has lagged behind sharing of other resources such as software.
OpenWorkstation: A modular open-source technology for automated in vitro workflows
Automation liberates scientific staff from repetitive tasks, decreases the probability of human error and consequently enhances the reproducibility of lab experiments.
PyLabRobot: An open-source, hardware-agnostic interface for liquid-handling robots and accessories
Abstract Liquid handling robots are often limited by proprietary programming interfaces that are only compatible with a single type of robot and operating system, restricting method sharing and slowing development.
Srishti: a custom-built laser-assisted 3D bioprinter for fabricating high-resolution biological constructs
Laser-assisted bioprinting is a nozzle-free, non-contact technique that employs drop-on-demand technology for the fabrication of high-resolution three dimensional (3D) structures for various applications including tis…
The Enderstruder: An accessible open-source syringe extruder compatible with Ender series 3D printers
A syringe extruder designed specifically for Ender 3D printers that can be printed and built for about $55.
The ‘bIUreactor’: an open-source 3D tissue research platform
We developed the open-source bIUreactor research platform for studying 3D structured tissues.
Hydrogel Patterns in Microfluidic Devices by Do-It-Yourself UV-Photolithography Suitable for Very Large-Scale Integration
The interest in large-scale integrated (LSI) microfluidic systems that perform high-throughput biological and chemical laboratory investigations on a single chip is steadily growing.
Adapting a Low-Cost and Open-Source Commercial Pipetting Robot for Nanoliter Liquid Handling
Low-volume liquid handling capabilities in bioanalytical workflows can dramatically improve sample processing efficiency and reduce reagent costs, yet many commercial nanoliter liquid handlers cost tens of thousands o…
mSLAb–An open-source masked stereolithography (mSLA) bioprinter
3D bioprinting is a tissue engineering approach using additive manufacturing to fabricate tissue equivalents for regenerative medicine or medical drug testing.
LusoBioMaker: A low-cost 3D bioprinter with multi-extrusion and contour printing capabilities for thermo- and photocurable hydrogels towards complex tissue fabrication
3D bioprinting is an expanding field that allows for the design of intricate structures using multiple materials and living cells.
BIO-SPEC: An open-source bench-top parallel bioreactor system
The BIO-SPEC is an open-source, cost-effective, and modular bench-top bioreactor system designed for batch, sequencing batch, and chemostat cultivation.
Technical upgrade of an open-source liquid handler to support bacterial colony screening
The optimization of genetically engineered biological constructs is a key step to deliver high-impact biotechnological applications.
Enhanced Growth of Bacterial Cells in a Smart 3D Printed Bioreactor
In the last decade, there has been a notable advancement in diverse bioreactor types catering to various applications.
A Custom Ultra-Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter Supports Cell Growth and Differentiation
Advances in 3D bioprinting have allowed the use of stem cells along with biomaterials and growth factors toward novel tissue engineering approaches.
Teach your microscope how to print: low-cost and rapid-iteration microfabrication for biology
. Our protocol drastically reduces material costs compared to conventional methods and enables design-to-device turnaround within a day.
Automated Liquid Handler from a 3D Printer
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Efforts to encourage laboratory automation through student access to and usage of commercial equipment are hampered by prohibitive acquisition costs.
Establishment of low-cost laboratory automation processes using AutoIt and 4-axis robots
In most small laboratories, many processes are not yet automated because existing laboratory automation solutions are usually expensive and inflexible to use.
EvoBot: An Open-Source, Modular, Liquid Handling Robot for Scientific Experiments
Commercial liquid handling robots are rarely appropriate when tasks change often, which is the case in the early stages of biochemical research.
An open-source programmable smart pipette for portable cell separation and counting
Microfluidics offers great potential for biomedical applications, but the complexity, inconvenience, and low pumping equipment accessibility of operating microfluidic devices have limited their widespread use.
3D Printing of Individualized Microfluidic Chips with DLP-Based Printer
Microfluidic chips have shown their potential for applications in fields such as chemistry and biology, and 3D printing is increasingly utilized as the fabrication method for microfluidic chips.
Melt Electrowriting of Nylon‐12 Microfibers with an Open‐Source 3D Printer
Melt-electrowriting printer built on the open-source MEWron platform (a converted Voron 0.1 3D printer), with a heated flat or cylindrical collector for printing nylon-12 microfibres and tubes.
Modular microfluidic systems cast from 3D-printed molds for imaging leukocyte adherence to differentially treated endothelial cultures
Microfluidic systems are very useful for in vitro studies of interactions between blood cells and vascular endothelial cells under flow, and several commercial solutions exist.