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  1. Esther Landhuis

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A researcher mounts six quail eggs onto a platform used to break shells and deposit embryos into a multi-well plate

Biologists and engineers worked together to create an inexpensive quail-egg platform to quickly test large numbers of drugs in living tissue. Credit: Erika Ellis

In a single motion, a sliding blade slices the bottoms off six speckled quail eggs, and their yolks plop into a six-well dish.

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Nature 606, 214-215 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01513-5

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