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Patterning the Geometry of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Colonies on Compliant Substrates to Control Tissue-Level Mechanics
Published on: September 28, 2019
Patterned differentiation of individual embryoid bodies in spatially organized 3D hybrid microgels
Hao Qi1, Yanan Du, Lianyong Wang
1Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|October 14, 2010
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