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Testing in the third dimension

Nature Nanotechnology volume 4, pages 342–343 (2009)Cite this article

Experiments with a new three-dimensional model of liver tissue find that the toxic effects of nanoparticles are reduced when compared with tests that use two-dimensional models.

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Figure 1: Architectures of the liver tissue in vitro and in vivo.

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  1. Molly M. Stevens is in the Department of Materials and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. m.stevens@imperial.ac.uk,

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