Team:EPF-Lausanne/Tools/Microfluidics/Tamagotchip

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The culmination of our system will be an on-chip "Tamagotchi":  the goal of the game is to take care of a ''C. Elegans'' larva living on the chip, feeding him with bacteria every now and then, and watch him grow into a fully grown adult. If you don't feed him, he'll go into ''dauer'' stage or, worse, die. This game will go live as soon as we can figure out how to actually see the larva with our microscope, after the wiki freeze. In the mean time, we'll gently introduce iGEMers to microfluidics, starting with simple flow experiments.
The culmination of our system will be an on-chip "Tamagotchi":  the goal of the game is to take care of a ''C. Elegans'' larva living on the chip, feeding him with bacteria every now and then, and watch him grow into a fully grown adult. If you don't feed him, he'll go into ''dauer'' stage or, worse, die. This game will go live as soon as we can figure out how to actually see the larva with our microscope, after the wiki freeze. In the mean time, we'll gently introduce iGEMers to microfluidics, starting with simple flow experiments.
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The tamagotchi chip has higher channels than the MITOMI chips, to make space for the worm. It is designed with a cavernous main lounge (by nematode standards), with two adjacent dining rooms (or feeding chambers), to allow for example to feed the worm with slightly different food, and observe its preference.
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The tamagotchi chip has higher channels than the MITOMI chips, to make space for the worm. It is designed with a cavernous main lounge (by nematode standards), with two adjacent dining rooms (or feeding chambers), to allow for feeding the worm with slightly different foods, and observing its preference.
   
   
[[File:Worm chip.png|700x306px]]
[[File:Worm chip.png|700x306px]]

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