Tekla Labs (TeklaLabs.org) is a non-profit organization of researchers, educators and hobbyists committed to developing
do it yourself
"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, wikt:modification, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Academic research has described DIY as behaviors where "individuals ...
(DIY) science infrastructure. Tekla Labs objective is to "enable scientists to construct their own high quality lab equipment using readily available, off the shelf items." Tekla Labs has been featured in numerous publications, including in
MAKE, TechHive, Nature.com Blogs,
New Scientist
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, and
SciDev.Net.
History
The organization was founded in 2010 in
Berkeley, California
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by postdoctoral and graduate student researchers at
UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...
and
UCSF
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.
One of the founders,
Lina Nilsson, cofounded Tekla Labs to develop high quality, open-source lab equipment that scientists could build themselves.
She drew on her experiences visiting biology labs in Asia and South America, where she saw researchers hindered by lack of access to proper laboratory equipment.
See also
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Open Source Lab (book)
The ''Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs'' by Joshua Pearce, Joshua M. Pearce was published in 2014 by Elsevier.
The academic book is a guide, which details the development of free and open-source hardware ...
References
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Francisco
Student organizations in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2010 establishments in California
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