asai wanted to find a way to shorten t ocur he devoted himself to designing a new ttiplate.owed his designs down to a well that allowed designs to be placed easily and quickly on the electrodes. >> translator: after looking through lots of data, w fnd that the testing was impeded by not being able to place the cell on the electrode. it was obvious. if the cell could be placed easily on the electrode, anyone could test it. we worked toward a way to pce the 100-micron cell on the electrode without a microscope 100% of the time. >> asai kept coming back to one particular shape. it was that of a plate he'd used at his old pharmactical mpany job. he added a funnel to the plate and tried it out with the cardiomyocytes. he worked out a way to accurately position a cell over the 20-micron electrode. asai began testing to see if an accurate ekgeang of the faint electric pulse could be tak taken. changing the width and shape of the electrodes eliminated the surrounding interference. in 2008 the plate project was completed. as a result, highly specialized training was no longer necessa