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Gaurav Byagathvalli

BioE Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology (BioE)
Verified email at gatech.edu
Cited by 126

An ultra-low-cost electroporator with microneedle electrodes (ePatch) for SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

D Xia, R Jin, G Byagathvalli, H Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Vaccination against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and
other pathogens with pandemic potential requires safe, protective, inexpensive, and easily …

[HTML][HTML] A 3D-printed hand-powered centrifuge for molecular biology

G Byagathvalli, A Pomerantz, S Sinha, J Standeven… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The centrifuge is an essential tool for many aspects of research and medical diagnostics.
However, conventional centrifuges are often inaccessible outside of standard laboratory …

Frugal science powered by curiosity

G Byagathvalli, EJ Challita… - Industrial & engineering …, 2021 - ACS Publications
More than 60 years ago, Richard Feynman gave a lecture titled “There’s Plenty of Room at
the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics”, where he called on others to join …

[HTML][HTML] ElectroPen: An ultra-low–cost, electricity-free, portable electroporator

G Byagathvalli, S Sinha, Y Zhang, MP Styczynski… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Electroporation is a basic yet powerful method for delivering small molecules (RNA, DNA,
drugs) across cell membranes by application of an electrical field. It is used for many diverse …

Tolerability of a piezoelectric microneedle electroporator in human subjects

…, P Rohilla, EI Felner, G Byagathvalli… - Bioengineering & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electroporation, or the use of electric pulses to facilitate the intracellular delivery of DNA,
RNA, and other molecules, is a well‐established technique, that has been demonstrated to …

ElectroPen: An ultralow-cost piezoelectric electroporator

G Byagathvalli, S Sinha, Y Zhang, MP Styczynski… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Electroporation is a basic yet powerful method for delivering small molecules (RNA, DNA,
drugs) across cell membranes by application of an electrical field. Due to its vital role, …

[HTML][HTML] Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density

…, Lambert_GA Byagathvalli Gaurav 100 Kim Ellie … - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Optical density (OD) is widely used to estimate the density of cells in liquid culture, but
cannot be compared between instruments without a standardized calibration protocol and is …

Leveraging the physics of a barbecue lighter to genetically transform living organisms

G Byagathvalli, S Sinha, Y Zhang, M Styczynski… - Bulletin of the American …, 2020 - APS
APS -APS March Meeting 2020 - Event - Leveraging the physics of a barbecue lighter to
genetically transform living organisms American Physical Society American Physical Society …

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L LEGO - Physics World, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
… But now it has been given a different use thanks to the work of Gaurav Byagathvalli and
Saad … Byagathvalli and Bhamla hope that the ElectroPen will now allow electroporation to be …

Scientists Transform Barbecue Lighter Into a High-Tech Laboratory Device

J Brown - Biomedical Safety & Standards, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Gaurav Byagathvalli set out to change that, with help from collaborators Soham Sinha, Yan
… why they are so bulky and expensive,” said Byagathvalli. “Since their conception in the early …