New ways to interact with biological cells in vitro offer greater levels of control over their location and milieu — much as they would experience in real tissues in vivo. Such microscale control reveals new insights into their biology and may lead to new technologies.
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*Biomicroelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Symposium, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 21–25, 2003.
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Voldman, J. Building with cells. Nature Mater 2, 433–434 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat936
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