Design and evaluation of low-cost, DIY programmable tissue processor for solvent exchange in biological sample preparation

• May Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: May Wang, Samantha Pelletier

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Samantha Pelletier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: May Wang, Samantha Pelletier

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8817-4942

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• Alexis Ellis,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Robert F. Shepherd,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Margaret H. Frank,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8269-8240

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• Abraham D. Stroock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Anand Kumar Mishra ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

  * E-mail: am2877@cornell.edu (AM); vb333@cornell.edu (VB)

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Vesna Bacheva

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: am2877@cornell.edu (AM); vb333@cornell.edu (VB)

  Affiliations School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3908-4128

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