Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

A versatile and customizable low-cost 3D-printed open standard for microscopic imaging

  • Benedict Diederich,
  • René Lachmann,
  • Swen Carlstedt,
  • Barbora Marsikova,
  • Haoran Wang,
  • Xavier Uwurukundo,
  • Alexander S. Mosig,
  • Rainer Heintzmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19447-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Open standard microscopy is urgently needed to give low-cost solutions to researchers and to overcome the reproducibility crisis in science. Here the authors present a 3D-printed, open-source modular microscopy toolbox UC2 (You. See. Too.) for a few hundred Euros.