Antwerp is the extreme easterr town of the county, and is bounded north by St. Lawrence and east by Lewis county. in the north and east portions the land surface is broken by low, rocky ridges which are parallel with Indian river. The westerly part is more level.
As in lost-wax casting, a technique that has been used to make sculptures for thousands of years, the team's approach allowed for the mold and vascular template to be removed once the cells were added and formed a solid tissue enveloping the filaments.
The ceramic shell mold is a single use waste mold system. One wax is needed to make one shell mold for one casting. This is the second mold or negative in the lost wax casting process. A ceramic slurry made from colloidal silica and fused silica flour is used as the binder in this molding system.