Correction to: Nature Biomedical Engineering https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-024-01272-w, published online 25 October 2024.

In the version of this article initially published, the graph shown in Fig. 2g was an earlier, incorrect version which is now updated. For comparison, the original and revised graphs are shown as Fig. 1 below. In the fourth paragraph of the Results, in the sentence now reading “To assess the long-term stability of beads in culture, we conjugated green fluorescence protein (GFP) onto SynVACs during fabrication and maintained the microbeads in RPMI (Roswell Park Memorial Institute) culture media … buffer at room temperature or 37 °C for 15 days,” the temperature was originally given as “4 °C.” In the first paragraph of the Results “Modulation and characterization of the mechanical properties of SynVACs and elastic beads” section, in the text now reading “Among all the groups fabricated, V1 … possesses properties most similar to that of mouse dendritic cells with a stiffness of 1–11 kPa and stress relaxation time of 1–5 s,” 1–11 kPa appeared originally as “11 kPa” and 1–5 s as “15 s.” The figure and text are now amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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Original and revised Fig. 2g.

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