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Yuji Tomizawa1, Krishna Dixit2, David Daggett3

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. yuji.tomizawa@uconn.edu.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 31, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
biosolid mechanicsforce sensorsoft lithographystiffness analysiszebrafish embryo

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