OpenSPIM and OpenSpinMicroscopy for light sheet microscopy
Posted in Software
This month, Nature Methods highlights a couple of open light sheet microscopy projects.
First up…
Monthly archives: June, 2013
GNOOM for spherical treadmill VR
Posted in Software
Mice can learn to navigate virtual reality environments using a spherical treadmill, and this behavior drives place cell and grid cell activity.
Christoph Schmidt-Hieber has started uploading his code to Google. …
Superhydrophobic spray-on coating now available
Neverwet is now available for about $20.
This is a spray-on, 2-part superhydrophobic coating (translucent when dry). What would it be useful for in a lab? For starters, spraying it on anything that needs to be cleaned regularly might make it easier to clean. Also, it can…
Local cross corr images
Posted in Software
One key step in analyzing data form calcium imaging experiments is segmentation (i.e., drawing regions of interest, ROIs). There have been…
MATLAB 2013a natively supports Kinect
There have been wrappers for interfacing with the Kinect device before, but the latest update to MATLAB makes it native to the Image Processing Toolbox. source
Drop a Kinect in…
Trimming pipette tips
Posted in Tips
I saw Benjamin Judkewitz trim the fat end off of a pipette tip and stick it onto a 1 mL syringe to make a fine tip for the syringe (above). This is handy for precisely…