Sunday, March 22, 2015

EGG ON A CHIP


Two scientists in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, part of the School of Medicine, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, have developed a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) "soft" process method to fabricate a transparent shell matching the shape and curvature of a real eggshell. Professor Liu Jing and graduate student Lai Yiyu present their advance toward creating an embryo lab on a chip in a just-released study, "Transparent soft PDMS eggshell," published in the Beijing-based journal SCIENCE CHINA Technological Sciences.

Article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/02/03/scientists-create-a-see-through-artificial-eggshell-for-lab-raised-embryos/

Paper:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/scp-tsp020215.php

This animation shows the top view of the bird embryo in the transparent eggshell.

No comments:

Post a Comment