Drop that Pipette: Science by Design

INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (lCSI) IN MICE BY A NEW HOLDING PIPETTE

Mice are ideal models for ICSI experiments because of the ease of culturing eggs/embryos in vitro and the availability of ample genetic information. Unfortunately, it has been extremely difficult. In this study we improved the mouse ICSI method by using a new holding pipette that was made of two pipettes such that one pipette was pulled and heat merged into the other one. The outer pipette ...

P-26: The Effect of Zygote and 2-cell Development Stages on Vitrification Process of Mouse Embryo

Background: While it is possible to routinely cryopreserve embryos from several mammalian species, the cryopreservation of embryos has largely been limited by their high sensitivity to chilling injury. Many factors such as the stage of embryonic development, cryoprotectant toxicity, the composition of the vitrification solution and cooling and warming rates can influence survival of embryos aft...

A Drop Pipette for Use in the Kahn Test

بررسی کاربردپذیری نمونه های مختلف پیپت‌های مکانیکی دستی به منظور تعیین بهترین نوع

Introduction: In Laboratory accusations a wide range of hand-held tools are used due to nature of their work. Long-term and repeated use of these tools has led the laboratory workers to suffer from upper limb disorders. The present study was designed and implemented with the aim of investigating the usability of different models of pipettes used in the laboratories of the Tehran University of M...

Coalescing drops in microfluidic parking networks: A multifunctional platform for drop-based microfluidics.

Multiwell plate and pipette systems have revolutionized modern biological analysis; however, they have disadvantages because testing in the submicroliter range is challenging, and increasing the number of samples is expensive. We propose a new microfluidic methodology that delivers the functionality of multiwell plates and pipettes at the nanoliter scale by utilizing drop coalescence and confin...