Collaborative experiments between B01 and BRAINIACS

Oskar Neumann performing rheometer experiments.
Oskar Neumann performing rheometer experiments. (Image: N. Reiter)

On 4 April 2023, project B01 (Oskar Neumann, PI: S. Budday) and Emmy-Noether research group BRAINIACS  (Nina Reiter, PI: S. Budday) conducted some preliminary experiments on pig spinal cords. The main goal was to gain a feel for producing spinal cord samples and to become familiar with the experimental procedures for future experiments on human spinal cords. In fact, it was already very enlightening, as it proved to be quite challenging to cut the spinal cord into small pieces without deformation.