A spheroid assay that recapitulates angiogenesis in vivo and a ring assay to measure lymphangiogenesis in vitro expand the toolbox of techniques to investigate these processes during development and tumor progression.
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Bielenberg, D. Metastasis: two assays explore the two roads traveled. Nat Methods 5, 384–385 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0508-384
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