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.](/files/images/styles/exhibit_full/public/imce/exhibits/2024/BuAngel3_Gelatin.jpg?itok=CG1fn-Mf)