dr. ronnie doss who says he is learning too. >> awesome. >> it is awesome. i mean usually i have my way of doing things, so it doesn't always translate well, but when you have the right mix, itworks out. >> this kind of collaboration is a growing trend, giving undergauge waited more hands on time and other research opportunities. valuable experience for the next level of education, and later career competition. here undergraduate has nearly doubled in the last five years. nationally the nonprofit council on undergraduate research has seen membership trip until the last decade. his teachers say his work on tissue, imaging and analysis is ground breaking the technology he develops worth patenting. >> nobody has demonstrated exactly what he has demonstrated as far as we know, and that's one reason why we filed this. >> as a student, he gives tremendous credit to his mentors and his time in the lab. to watch the devices come out, and transport tissue, and then learn that no one else has ever done this before, it is exciting. >> the kind of exciting development m