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Nature Materials 8, 451 - 453 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2458

Biomaterials: Spotlight on hydrogels

Matthias P. Lutolf1

  1. Matthias P. Lutolf is at the Institute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
    e-mail: matthias.lutolf@epfl.ch


By using light to control the degradation of hydrogel components in space and time, researchers have generated a tool to help them reconstruct functional biological tissues in a culture dish.

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