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Rami El Assal1, Sinan Guven, Umut Atakan Gurkan

  • 1Bio-Acoustic-MEMS in Medicine (BAMM) Laboratory, Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA; Bio-Acoustic-MEMS in Medicine (BAMM) Laboratory, Division for Biomedical Engineering, Division of Infectious Diseases, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.

Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|July 23, 2014
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Keywords:
bio-inspired materialsbio-printingcryoprotective agentsnanoliter vitrificationred blood cell cryopreservation

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