Chicken!!

Today in bioengineering we focused on the macroscale, learning mostly about biomechanics. We learned about the purpose of scaffolds and how they're made. We also did some three-point testing on repaired muscle models, and most importantly, we played with chicken leg quarters! We loved investigating the movement around the knee joint, pulling on tendons, dissecting out the knee joint, and finding bone marrow. We also looked at how damaged muscles work different from normal muscles - chicken treated with meat tenderizer represented muscle atrophy, and that with small transverse cuts represented muscle tears.