Scenes also serve as clips for teaching, documenting and preserving the accuracy of science through film.
They are precisely unedited and raw. There are meant to be recycled and repositioned into a different context in which they can be framed as cinematic experiences.
micropipette aspiration of multicellular aggregates
The movie shows multicellular aggregates composed of cancer-associated fibroblasts, extracted from hen cancer samples, and ovarian cancer cells, from an immortalized cell line. Their physical properties were probed through aspiration via a microscopic glass tube.
The movie shows the cells flowing in, displaying viscoelastic behaviors of the collective. By quantifying the deformation we have access to the mechanical properties of this structure.