WATCH: Japanese HS students hatch egg outside its shell
A group of Japanese high school students discovered a process to hatch an egg outside its shell. The chicken embryonic experiment, which was featured in a Japanese TV segment, was uploaded on video-sharing site Youtube and viewed 578,340 as of posting time.
A video uploaded on YouTube by Wondering Channel Animal Fights on May 25 illustrated the step-by-step process, called shell-less culturing, an in-vitro fertilization method for chickens and ducks. First, the students separated the egg yolk from the egg by molding a cling wrap over a plastic cup and then breaking the egg on its surface.
On the third day, the chick’s heart slowly formed and on the fifth day, the body. As a whole, the chicken fetus developed in an incubator and was screened for 21 days.
According to British news site Mirror, professor Yutaka Tahara and his students gradually observed the experiment “hour by hour.
According to The Daily Dot, shell-less culturing of chicks and other feathered animals has been studied by scientists as early as 1971, such as incubating an egg in a shell for three days before relocating it to a Petri dish, which is used to culture cells. Gianna Francesca Catolico
