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Cell culture: building a better matrix

Nature Methods volume 6, pages 619–622 (2009)Cite this article

With the realization that cells interact extensively with their surrounding microenvironments during growth and development, the challenge for researchers has become designing three-dimensional culture systems that more closely mimic those relationships.

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