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La Jolla/Riford Library IDEA Lab | Public Library
Life. Science. Your Library...Your IDEA Lab
The IDEA LAB at the La Jolla/Riford Library is open to “any member of the community who is curious about science or has an idea they want to try out.” Those are the words of Callen Hyland, a Senior Research Scientist at the University of San Diego and one of the lab’s passionate volunteers. Since the Idea Lab’s grand opening on May 25, 2019, volunteers and patrons have made excellent use of the signature space. The lab has three main aspects—a community biology lab, a 3D printer lab, and two brand new Mac computers equipped to edit digitized photos and videos.
Did You Know?
The La Jolla/Riford Library boasts what is quite possibly the first biology lab inside a public library anywhere in the world. It contains everything required for the majority of molecular biology techniques, such as a thermal cycler, gel electrophoresis, and centrifuge. Thanks to the camera connected to one of the lab microscopes, students can view their slides up on the TV or on a computer screen, take images, and conduct more in-depth analysis of microscope slides.
At the new space’s grand opening, Congressman Scott Peters bestowed it with a congressional proclamation! As he put it, the lab is “a reflection of the bio-tech industry in La Jolla and makes emerging technology accessible to anybody.”
Projects
Summer Camp
The first summer camp at the bio-lab was a Hands-On Genetic Modification workshop aimed to teach children and their parents about cells, DNA, DNA replication, and PCR. These experiments were completed with a bacterial transformation (introduction of foreign DNA), which caused the bacteria to glow when exposed to UV light.
In the past, the La Jolla Riford Library has helped with the La Jolla Cove Microbial Diversity Project and is 3D Lab Partners with Cabrillo Monument.
La Jolla Cove Microbial Diversity Project
La Jolla Cove is an iconic swimming beach popular with tourists and locals. Known for its abundant marine mammals, sea birds and fish, and its neighboring busy urban area, the Cove is a microcosm for the complex interactions between humans and wildlife.
Although La Jolla’s marine wildlife is famous, the micro-organisms that populate the water are a mystery. San Diego County routinely tests the water for a small number of bacterial species that are associated with sewage pollution. However, this is certainly just scratching the surface since ocean water is a complex ecosystem with potentially millions of diverse types of bacteria.
3D Lab Partners with Cabrillo Monument
The La Jolla Library, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Cabrillo National Monument collaborated on 3D Cabrillo a multifaceted educational resource and experience available to educators both near and far.
Utilizing a special imagining program to create biomodels of many of the prominent organisms found in the Rocky Intertidal Zone of Cabrillo Monument, the participants were able to connect nature and technology. Free downloadable versions of these models are available to the public on their website at the 3D Cabrillo Biomodel Library. These models can be produced on any 3D printer, such as those available through the San Diego public library system.
The goal of this initiative is to highlight the public’s important role in awareness and stewardship of our public lands, a tenant inherent in the very mission of the Park Service. By connecting nature and technology, they look to foster excitement in the next generation of environmental stewards.
Lab Policies
3D Lab
The 3D Lab is a learning facility to teach 3D design.
Priority for self-designed projects.
3D print jobs must be limited to a maximum of 2 hours.
Limit 1 print job per week.
Please stay with your print job.
Do not leave it unattended.
A registered volunteer must be in the lab at all times.
Please respect the rules of conduct of the library.
Bio Lab General Safety
Never work in the lab without a volunteer or staff member present.
Know the locations of fire extinguisher, first aid kit, chemical spill kit, and emergency wash facilities.
Never work with a chemical unless you understand all of its properties and potential hazards.
Always wear long pants and closed toed shoes when working in the lab.
Tie back long hair and remove dangling jewelry.
Wear gloves, lab coat, and goggles when working with hazardous chemicals or where there is a splash hazard.
Do not eat, drink, apply cosmetics or contact lenses except in designated clean areas.
Do not wash lab glassware in sinks or store lab materials in refrigerators that are also used for food.
Always wash hands when leaving the lab.
Digital Memory Lab
Age Policy - The Digital Memory Lab is designated for use by people ages 13 and older. Children ages 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian at all times. Parental consent is required for ages 17 and younger.
Release Form - A release form is required to use the Digital Memory Lab. Download and sign your Release Form before coming to your session or fill one out at the lab.
Food and Beverages - Food and drink are not allowed in the Lab. Food and drink can damage our media equipment as well as attract pests that can damage materials.
Saving Your Files - Please save your project files on your own external drive. All Digital Memory Lab computers are reset nightly so files cannot be stored on the lab machines without risk of losing data.
Storage of Personal Items - Hard drives or other personal items needed for saving or transferring files cannot be stored at the Digital Memory Lab.
Materials brought to the lab for scanning or analysis must remain with you at all times.
Reserving the Lab - The Digital Memory Lab is open for appointments. Only one session per user per day. Reservations can only be held for 30 minutes maximum, thereafter, your station will be released. To book an appointment, click here.
Equipment
Bio Lab
Upright compound microscope
Stereo zoom microscope
Refrigerator
Microwave
Incubator/oven
Thermal Cycler
Mini hot plate/stirrer
Mini Centrifuge
Menchtop microcentrifuge
DC power supply
Double Wide Midi-gel unit
Mini gel unit
Vortexer
Shaking water bath
Digital balance
Gel transilluminator
Microscope eyepiece digital camera
Wooden pipette stand holds 12
Pipettors (1-10 μL to 200-1000 μL)
Erlenmeyer Flasks (50 mL to 1000 mL)
Glass 20x150 test tubes & rack
Glass beakers (50 mL, 250 mL and 600 mL)
Glastic beakers (10 mL to 1000 mL)
Glastic Graduated Cylinders
Plexiglass algae culture display box
Microscope slide holder
Funnels
Various Eppendorf and PCR tube racks
Darkfield stops set
3D printed microscope
Test tube holder for water bath
Eyepiece adaptor for cell phone
3D Lab
Two 5th generation Makerbot Replicator Desktop 3D printers
Two Mac computers – equipped with Adobe Creative Cloud for editing photos and videos
Digital Memory Lab - Accepted Formats
VHS & VHS-C
DV & miniDV
Betamax
Video8, Hi8 & Digital8
8mm and Super 8 Film
8-track audio tape
Audio Cassette
Reel to Reel Audio
Photos
Slides
Negatives
Vinyl Record
3.
5" Floppy
Support the Lab
By supporting the Friends of La Jolla Library you can help support La Jolla/Riford Library Bio Lab projects, workshops, and after school programming and mentoring for science fair projects. To discuss naming rights for our Idea Lab, please contact us.
Volunteer Opportunities
Anyone interested in volunteering in the IDEA Lab, please apply for the STEAM Coach position here.
For volunteer opportunities at other library locations, please click here.
Mobile IDEA Lab | Public Library
The following technology software resources list is compiled to provide you with suggestions for web-based, downloadable, open source, freeware and low-cost software to use on your personal devices.
Open Source 3D Modeling Software
AutoDesk Fusion 360 - 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool. It connects your entire product development process in a single cloud-based platform that works on both Mac & PC.
Blender - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software.
Design Spark - Resources & tools to aid engineers in design process.
OnShape - CAD system. Eliminates design gridlock & helps engineers do their best work.
OpenSCAD - Create solid 3D CAD objects. Available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows/Mac OS X.
Sculptris - Sculpting software program, focus on the concept of modeling clay.
SketchUp - 3D modeling software that's easy to learn and incredibly fun to use.
Thingiverse - Download files and build them with your laser cutter, 3D printer, or CNC.
TinkerCAD - 3D CAD design tool. Quickly turn ideas into a CAD model for a 3D printer.
3D Splicing Software for Printing
Simplify3D - Compatible with hundreds of 3D printers. See videos.
MakerBot Print - Free software to prepare, manage, and share 3D prints.
Ultimaker Cura - Ultimaker Cura prepares your model for 3D printing.
Open Source Electronic Prototyping
Arduino - Enabling users to create interactive electronic object.
Computer Programming
Code Academy - An online freemium interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Sass, markup languages HTML and CSS).
Hopscotch - An app that helps people learn how to code through a visual language. Optimized for coding games. The programming language centers around "blocks" that you drag and drop to build routines.
Raspberry Pi - A tiny and affordable computer. Learn programming.
Scratch - Create your own interactive stories, games, & animations.
Web Development
CodePen - A social development environment. Allows you to write code in the browser, and see the results of it as you build. A useful and liberating tool for developers of any skill, and particularly empowering for people learning to code. Focusing on front-end languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and preprocessing syntaxes that turn into those things.
Coffeecup - Responsive Web Design Tools and HTML Software.
W3Schools - A web developers site, with tutorials and references on web development languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Python, W3.CSS, and Bootstrap), covering most aspects of web programming.
Free Graphic Design Software
GIMP - A free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
Inkscape - Professional quality vector graphics software (Linux, Mac OS X & Windows).
Krita - Raster graphics editor, designed primarily for digital painting & animation.
Silhouette Studio - Design & send to Silhouette electronic cutting machine.
Open Source Video Editors
DaVinci Resolve - Professional offline and online editing, color correction, audio post production and now visual effects.
Lightworks - Professional non-linear editing system for editing and mastering digital video in vari-ous formats, including 2K and 4K resolutions, and television in PAL, NTSC, and high-definition formats.
Shotcut - Cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Photo Editors
Adobe Photoshop Express Editor - Get all the essential tools, including Lightroom and Photoshop, for crafting incredible images every day.
Fotor - Free online designer and editing tool catering to all your photographic and image creation needs! Add filters, frames, text, stickers and more.
GIMP - Free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
Pixlr Editor - A free robust browser photo editor. Have full control over your images, including layers and effects.
Free CNC Milling Software
Easel - 3D Carving Made Easy. Design, import, and carve for free from a single program with Easel.
Project Ideas & Resources
Instructables - Learn how to make anything with Instructables.
Easy to follow step-by-step instructions, online classes, and a vibrant maker community.
Inventables Projects - Inventables: the hardware store for designers. We help designers buy the products they need.
MAKE - Celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will.
High performance 3D bioprinter could speed up drug development
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UC San Diego Nanoengineers (UCSD, USA) developed a high-performance technology bioprinting, which allows you to print on a 3D printer with a record speed - with its help you can get a large batch of 96 samples of living human tissues within 30 minutes, reports press office of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD. in detail technology is described in the magazine Biofabrication .
The technology will allow drug developers to quickly create large amounts of human tissue on which they could testing new drugs and weeding out failed trials earlier, focusing on more promising drugs.
The researchers note that while their technology cannot eliminate animal testing, it can minimize failures that occur at this - preclinical - stage.
New technology competes with other 3D methods bioprinting is not only by permission - it allows you to print Real size 3D structures with complex microscopic characteristics, such as human liver cancer tissue containing network of blood vessels, but also in terms of speed. Printing one of these tissue samples takes about 10 seconds using this technology; printing the same sample by traditional methods will take few hours. In addition, you no longer need to manually transfer Samples one at a time from print platform to well plates for screening: on tablet with 96 holes (example in the photo) at once you can create a batch of samples - in just half an hour.
Reproducibility is another key feature of this work. The fabrics that this technology allows to obtain are are highly organized structures, so they can be easily reproduce for screening on an industrial scale, changing according to request properties, structure and function of tissues.
How technology works
To print tissue samples, researchers first create three-dimensional models of biological structures on a computer. These drawings can be obtained even with medical scans, therefore, they can be personalized to the patient's tissues. Then the computer cuts the model into two-dimensional images and transfers them to millions of microscopic mirrors. Every mirror digitally controlled to project patterns violet light with a wavelength of 405 nanometers, which is safe for cells, in the form of these pictures. Light patterns fall on solution containing live cell cultures and photosensitive polymers that harden when exposed to light. Enough quickly, layer by layer, a solid polymer frame is printed, which contains living cells that will grow and form biological tissue.
The digitally controlled micromirror array is the key to high printer speed. Since it projects entire two-dimensional patterns when printed layer by layer, it creates three-dimensional structures are much faster than other printing methods, in which each layer is scanned line by line using a nozzle or laser.
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Source: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu
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Smart food: how 3D food printers can help you maintain a healthy diet
Scientists at Ewha Women's University in South Korea have created a 3D printer that prints foods with a given nutrient content and predetermined taste properties. The author of the development, Jin-Kyu Lee, presented his invention on April 24, 2018 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Diego. About the prospect of using "smart" food - in the material RT.
Key nutrients (eg carbohydrates and proteins) are ground to a powder at -100 °C. Then the resulting raw material is heated and turns into a porous film. After that, a three-dimensional product is created from several layers of films.
The uniqueness of the development lies in the fact that by combining films with different content of proteins, carbohydrates, trace elements and vitamins, you can get a product saturated with nutrients in the required proportion. In addition, you can experiment with the flavor palette of the product, combining, for example, powdered pear and apple.
“We believe that one day anyone will be able to purchase cartridges containing powdered analogues of various ingredients that can be “collected” together using 3D printing and prepared a “dish” according to individual needs and preferences,” said the author of the development, the researcher from Ewha Women's University Jin-Kyu Lee.
Balanced diet
The developers believe the new technology will significantly reduce the amount of food waste and the financial costs of storing and transporting food. Also, according to scientists, their invention will help meet the food needs of the growing population of the planet. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, by 2050 the world's population will increase from the current 7.
6 billion people to 9.8 billion, and in 2100 it will reach 11.2 billion.
“If a family gets a 3D printer, then they don't have to be afraid of hunger. Of course, we are only at the beginning of the journey. We continue to optimize our development to create customized products that last longer than usual,” said Jin-Kyu Lee.
The first 3D food printers appeared in 2015 and could only prepare simple meals. One of these devices works in the FoodInk 3D kitchen restaurant, opened in London in 2016. Everything in this establishment - from food to furniture and cutlery - is created on a 3D printer. The restaurant offers a nine-course menu to visitors. The 3D printer used here works on the principle of a conventional one, the role of ink is played by a paste of edible ingredients, such as cottage cheese or chocolate mousse.
According to Russian nutritionists, the development of Korean scientists will help people maintain a balanced diet. However, experts emphasize that it is not worth doing “self-healing” with the help of a 3D printer - first you need to seek advice from a specialist.
“On complex developments that provide for a certain nutrient content, a person will not last long. In addition, it deprives him of the pleasure of eating. Such 3D food can be balanced and healthy, but quickly get bored. And of course, it’s better not to prescribe a diet for yourself, but to turn to a competent nutritionist who will make up a diet based on the state of your body, ”said Alla Pogozheva, professor at the Research Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, in an interview with RT.
“In Russia, printers for printing products are not yet manufactured. For now, they remain a luxury item. However, in ten years, printers for printing products will most likely become more affordable for the average consumer, ”said Alexander Vinogradov, director of the chemical and biological cluster at ITMO University, in an interview with RT.
At the same time, 3D printing methods are actively developing in Russia, but in a more fundamental direction.
