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Nature Materials 2, 433 - 434 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat936

BioMEMS: Building with cells

Joel Voldman1

  1. Joel Voldman is at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. e-mail: voldman@mit.edu


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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