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| Title |
Printing Multistrain Bacterial Patterns with a Piezoelectric Inkjet Printer
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2007
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0000663 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jack Merrin, Stanislas Leibler, John S. Chuang |
| Abstract |
Many studies involving interacting microorganisms would benefit from simple devices able to deposit cells in precisely defined patterns. We describe an inexpensive bacterial piezoelectric inkjet printer (adapted from the design of the POSaM oligonucleotide microarrayer) that can be used to "print out" different strains of bacteria or chemicals in small droplets onto a flat surface at high resolution. The capabilities of this device are demonstrated by printing ordered arrays comprising two bacterial strains labeled with different fluorescent proteins. We also characterized several properties of this piezoelectric printer, such as the droplet volume (of the order of tens of pl), the distribution of number of cells in each droplet, and the dependence of droplet volume on printing frequency. We established the limits of the printing resolution, and determined that the printed viability of Escherichia coli exceeded 98.5%. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| India | 1 | 20% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 20% |
| Belgium | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 128 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 5% |
| France | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 23% |
| Researcher | 28 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 9% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 23 | 18% |
| Unknown | 16 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 43 | 34% |
| Engineering | 23 | 18% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 11 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 7% |
| Chemistry | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 19 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 May 2023.
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#1,894,168
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#23,895
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#3,717
of 68,658 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#29
of 185 outputs
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