I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Organs Zone. It has scientists studying health and disease in various parts of our bodies. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Hi jboeg,
If you read my description of my work it explains how we make recordings.
Basically we take a segment of intestine out of an experimental animal and place it in a bath filled with a solution that helps keep it alive. We also keep it at the right temperature and keep it bubbled with oxygen to stay alive. The tissue is normally very happy like this and can wriggle or contract for several hours in this state.
We place a video camera over the bath and make recordings of the intestine moving and then use special software that changes the video into a map that represents these movements/contractions.
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