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Micropipetting Cytoplasm from the Mouse Egg

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MICROMANIPULATION of living cells presents many intriguing problems because cells are so small and cellular substances are usually viscous. Placing a micropipette into a cell can be accomplished fairly easily by means of a precision micromanipulator, but removing a quantity of cytoplasm from a cell is difficult; to overcome this we have devised a vacuum micropipetting system.

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LIN, T. Micropipetting Cytoplasm from the Mouse Egg. Nature 216, 162–163 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216162a0

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