making gels for embryo injections

Greetings,

In "The Zebrafish Book", I see a really nice description of a device
to hold zebrafish embryos during microinjection (pg. 5.2). I'd like
to make gels using this plastic "slot maker", but don't know where to
find such a device. I've been using standard vertical wells, but it
would be nice to have 1 vertical wall to rest the embryo against & 1
sloped wall to inject from. Any idea where to purchase this "slot
maker"?

Kindest regards,

Jonathan

Hi, we've purchased ours from Adaptive Science tools from Worchester,
MA. Model TU-1 is the type you describe but they have a couple other
options as well.

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happy injecting,
J.C.

On Jan 29, 2:42*pm, Jonathan Schumacher <[Only registered users see links. ]> wrote:
Hi Jonathan,

I just use several glass microscope slides stick together with
transparent nail polish (so that it is thick enough), and tilt it in
the petri dish. It only makes one row (for holding embryos) per petri
dish. It works very well for me. Maybe you can give it a try.

Haiqiong
Fekete Lab
Purdue University