A sense of scale can be valuable. Here are the 2012 Research & Development budgets of several tech companies and pharmaceutical companies compared to approximate annual disbursements from the Wellcome Trust and the HHMI….
Figshare is an online database for storing figures, data, and papers. It’s been around for a while, but recently its really been taking off.
–You can post images, or entire paper PDFs. Also datasets.
–It’s…
Against middle management’s better judgement, Labrigger shirts are available now. Link to the store.
Just two designs right now. The one above, and the popular Guide…
Post publication peer review has yet to really take off, but Labrigger hopes it does. One of the newest sites is PubPeer.
PubPeer does it right, allowing for anonymity. This is important in order…
Sometimes it’s possible to use aftermarket software (or firmware) to make consumer products function for lab applications. In this post, I’ll cover some software for iOS cameras and Canon cameras that add functions useful…
A flurry of posts on the topic culminated in this from Lars Engstrom:
Turnout at the polls this year was low… but here are the results:
How would you complete this sentence:
using confocal and…
Hubbian is an alternative interface for browsing the abstracts for the upcoming Society for Neuroscience meeting. It tracks abstracts views and has an interface for comments and voting. It’s a product of …
Coax BNC cables come in two flavors, 50 ohm and 75 ohm. For experimental rigs (PMTs, DAQs, amplifiers), always buy 50 ohm cables. The 75 ohm versions are for…
The GCaMP5 paper is out now. The paper looks fantastic. There’s tons of helpful information and impressive demonstrations of its performance in several popular model systems.
But isn’t GCaMP6 the best thing going? Is…
New analysis in PNAS is used to support several new conclusions:
Fraud is increasing. “The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased 10-fold since 1975.”
“…for articles in which the reason…
Last Monday, Labrigger covered HelioScan, a LabVIEW-based, two-photon laser scanning microscopy software suite.
Marcel van ‘t…
Lukas Fisher’s got a new post up covering the build of a super bright LED spotlight, including details on his experience with hotplate-based reflow soldering. (link)
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Olympus Corp.’s former president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa admitted guilt Tuesday in a cover-up of massive investment losses
There are also reports that Sony may swoop in with about 0.6 billion…
HelioScan is a LabVIEW-based software suite from Fritjof Helmchen’s group that is specialized for running 2 photon microscopes, and is carefully designed to be modular. This modularity is intended to make it more…
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