Category: Biotechnology

Biotechnology

OpenFlexure Microscope: A Distributed Model for Scientific Hardware Innovation

Written by Ricardo Ruiz

The OpenFlexure Project is an open-source initiative that provides high-precision mechanical positioning tools accessible to anyone with a 3D printer. It focuses on developing scientific hardware such as microscopes and micromanipulators, enabling low-cost, customisable solutions for research and education. The project includes designs like the OpenFlexure Microscope and various mechanical stages, all supported through community … Continue reading “OpenFlexure Microscope: A Distributed Model for Scientific Hardware Innovation”

Biotechnology

Makerspaces for sustainable development

Written by Mugethi Gitau

Mboa Lab’s Critical Making efforts in Cameroon Cameroon’s MboaLab is teaching useful critical making skills with the aim of promoting women’s self worth, their ability to determine their own choices and the right to influence social change for themselves and others as well as to remove gender bias through critical making . MboaLab is an … Continue reading “Makerspaces for sustainable development”

Biotechnology

Gosanitize! Go Girls ICT (South Sudan)’s response to Covid 19

Written by Mugethi Gitau

South Sudan is a country that depends entirely on imports from its neighboring countries and during the pandemic, products such as hand sanitizers became more expensive as their demand was high and not affordable to the common person in the community. GoGirls inspiration to research and come up with a hand sanitizer called Gosanitize from … Continue reading “Gosanitize! Go Girls ICT (South Sudan)’s response to Covid 19”

Biotechnology

MboaLab inaugurates its “Bio Innovation Hub”

Written by Ricardo Ruiz

MboaLab committed to educating, transforming and positively impacting the lives of the Cameroonian people through its DIY lab. Last February, Mboalab, in partnership with the University of Cambridge, inaugurated its “Bio-Innovation Hub”. This Hub is a shared biotechnology laboratory made available to researchers and students and is already undoubtedly contributing to the democratisation of biotechnology in … Continue reading “MboaLab inaugurates its “Bio Innovation Hub””