Cellular Guillotine Speeds Self-Healing Research

Jul-07-17 A microscopic guillotine able to efficiently split cells in half will help speed the study of cell repair.

Understanding how some single cell organisms heal into two separate organisms when cut in half could help usher in self-healing materials and machines. However, cutting single cells in half is a rather tedious process.

To help speed this important research, the team from Stanford University created a microfluidic guillotine able to slice single cells up to 200 times faster than current methods. Not only are the cells cut quickly and cleanly, the cuts are more synchronized, allowing the healing process to standardized across the cells.

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