Muscle Beach

Muscle Beach

Angel Bu & Ritu Raman, Raman Lab MIT Mechanical Engineering

This image shows what happens when you culture contractile muscle onto a stiff surface, the myotubules rip themselves off the substrates.

This was done in an effort to understand if our fibrin platform could be substituted with a thin coat of gelatin. This was attempted because of the optical clarity and planar nature of gelatin coated well plates.

Glowing green folds overlapping one another on black background.

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