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Opinion: The Promise and Plight of Open Data
Opinion: The Promise and Plight of Open Data
Open science serves to make the research process more transparent. But we are still waiting to realize the fruits of open-data policies at scientific journals.
Open science serves to make the research process more transparent. But we are still waiting to realize the fruits of open-data policies at scientific journals.
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Seeing is Believing with Automated Single Cell Precision Imaging
The Scientist’s Creative Services Team and Canopy Biosciences | Apr 22, 2022 | 1 min read
The Rise of BCI Enables Advances in Neuroscience
Jef Akst | Oct 1, 2020 | 10+ min read
A nascent but growing consumer market for brain-computer interface technology is driving the development of sleek new tools for decoding brain activity.
Image of the Day: Beating Heart
Sukanya Charuchandra | Jul 2, 2018 | 1 min read
Scientists at the Allen Institute for Cell Science have developed an open-source stem cell line with fluorescent tags for cardiac cells.
Researchers React to Microsoft’s Acquisition of GitHub
Anna Azvolinsky | Jun 7, 2018 | 4 min read
Computational biologists are optimistic that the purchase of the world’s largest hub for open-source computer code will not affect the way they use GitHub for science.
Image of the Day: Lego Microscopy
The Scientist Staff | May 16, 2018 | 1 min read
With open-source software and Lego hardware, researchers have created a low-cost, automated method for cellular fluorescence microscopy.
Data Sharing Goes Linux
Bob Grant | Aug 26, 2013 | 1 min read
A life-science information platform joins the nonprofit organization that helped develop the open-source operating system.
May the Best Model Win
Aimee Swartz | Jun 4, 2013 | 5 min read
Computational challenges are tapping the collective wisdom of the scientific community to solve medicine’s biggest problems.