Robotic microinjection

Jon Moulton

Friday, 14 Sep 2007 15:20 UTC

A embryo microinjection robot has been constructed and used for automated Morpholino injections into zebrafish embryos. The system injects 15 embryos/min through the chorion with 99% successful injection, 98% survival, and 98.5% notail phenotype when a ntl Morpholino is used.

Wang W, Liu X, Gelinas D, Ciruna B, Sun Y. A Fully Automated Robotic System for Microinjection of Zebrafish Embryos.
PLoS ONE. 2007 Sep 12;2(9):e862.

Updated 14 Sep 2007 15:29 UTC


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