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Featured Articles
Scents of Security: Emerging Olfaction Applications with Biorobots
The following publication review showcases several new and exciting findings in the olfactory sciences, highlighting how our instruments helped these researchers stir up the lab. The natural world often serves as inspiration for innovation, and insects – specifically their olfactory systems – have become a recent research topic of interest. Given the remarkable sensitivity of insect odor detection systems, the potential applications of this budding field are numerous.
Recent Therapeutic Advances in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Models
The following publication review showcases recent studies focused on therapeutic advances in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) that use Aurora Scientific equipment.
Cut and Paste of Myosin Binding Protein-C in Striated Muscles
Dr. Samantha Harris discusses the development of three new mouse models in her lab, engineered to target and replace specific myosin binding protein-C paralogs in muscle fibers and impact of their mutations on skeletal and cardiac muscle diseases.
News & Events
Industry Insights with Chris Rand from Aurora Scientific
Chris Rand, MSc, Sales and Marketing Manager, delves into the start and evolution of Aurora Scientific on this episode of #ShareScience, and our journey within the preclinical research world. He also discusses our path into the neuroscience space, and future directions the company is headed towards.
Functional Recovery of the Musculoskeletal System Following Injury – Leveraging the Large Animal Model
Watch Dr. Sarah Greising discuss the current pathophysiologic understanding of the skeletal muscle remaining following traumatic musculoskeletal injuries.
Excellence, Innovation, and Collaboration: A Day at the MHRC with Arthur Cheng
Interviewing Dr. Arthur Cheng at the Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC), York University, an innovative research centre that facilitates the interdisciplinary study of muscle biology and the importance of skeletal muscle to the overall health and well-being of Canadians. Dr. Cheng's lab primarily investigates the mechanisms of skeletal muscle weakness and fatigue, and focuses on how calcium handling affects these mechanisms.
Muscle Physiology
Mitigating Neuromuscular Deficits
This publication review highlights how several researchers have recently employed our instruments and technologies to better understand these mechanisms and uncover new therapeutic avenues for a variety of diseases and disorders.
Cardiac Biophysics
Cardiac biophysics is a necessary component for understanding cardiac disease and dysfunction. This publication review explores recent publications that investigate mechanical and biophysical properties of cardiac muscle.
Nerve versus Muscle Stimulation: When to Use?
This technical blog discusses the importance of choosing the correct method to measure hindlimb mechanics in animal models: nerve or muscle stimulation.
Best of 2021: Muscle Physiology
This publication review summarizes some of the best recent articles that fall under our Muscle Physiology category.
Using the 1700A Single Myofibril System – Tips and Tricks
The 1700A single myofibril system (sometimes referred to as the ‘Penguin’) is commonly used to investigate the active and passive properties of single myofibrils.
Laryngeal Muscles in Development and Disease
Courtesy of Glass et al. (2019). The larynx is an organ that sits in the top of the neck and holds
Musculoskeletal Complications of Cancer and its Treatments
In this webinar Dr. Bonetto presents evidence that bone preservation directly impacts muscle size and function in cachexia, thus also contributing to unraveling novel pathogenetic mechanisms and opening new avenues for treatment.
How to calibrate an Aurora Scientific High Speed Length Controller using HVSL
Our 315D & 322D models of High-Speed Length Controllers are routinely used by researchers studying small tissue samples such as fibers and cells because these
Olfaction & Plume Tracking
Staff Picks – TOP Publications of 2019…
As always, the entire team at Aurora Scientific has enjoyed reading and learning this year about the fantastic research and novel discoveries that are being
From Computational to Behavioral – how plume conditions affect odor tracking
The animal kingdom has had millennia to develop complex mechanisms to identify and localize airborne odors. And although humans have had a considerably shorter time
Studying Olfaction as a Measure of Animal Behavior
While it might be easy to forget as a human, olfaction is a critical input for behavior in many animals. The neural mechanisms for sensing,
Materials Science
How to Calibrate Your Dual-Mode Lever System Using DMC
This blog is intended to navigate you through the process of calibrating your 300C Dual-Mode Muscle Lever Series using Dynamic Muscle Control (DMC). A proper calibration
Beyond a Force Transducer: 300C Capabilities
Are you familiar with our 300C Dual-Mode Muscle Lever series, the center piece of our 1200A/1205A Isolated Muscle Systems and 1300A/1305A 3-in-1 Whole Animal Systems? Many researchers
Performing a Tube Repair of an ASI 400A Force Transducer
The procedure for replacing a broken output tube involves removing the broken tube and the glue used to hold it in place and then gluing