Long survival observation of C. Elegans inside Environmental SEM for nanomanipulations

Masahiro Nakajima*, Naoya Nakanishi, Naoki Hisamoto, Masaru Takeuchi, Hirotaka Tajima, Michio Homma, Qiang Huang, Toshio Fukuda

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel technique for long survival observation of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) inside Environmental-SEM (E-SEM) for nanomanipulations. We have developed the nanorobotic manipulation system inside an Environmental-Scanning Electron Microscope (E-SEM) integrated optical microscope (OM) for nanobiomanipulation platform. Our platform provides a real-time high resolution image under water-contained condition in nano-meter high-magnification image. One of the difficulties on the E-SEM observation is to maintain the biological sample on survival condition in long time. In this paper, we propose a coating method on the C. elegans or sample substrate for maintain the survival condition to keep in wet-condition. The proposed technique is useful to operate the nanomanipulation on C. elegans body, for example nano-injection of functional micro-nano beads as demonstrated in this paper.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2013
Pages187-190
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20138 Aug 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology
ISSN (Print)1944-9399
ISSN (Electronic)1944-9380

Conference

Conference2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period5/08/138/08/13

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