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Caption: Mesenchymal stem cells can be grown on silicone membranes with micropatterned grooves. These grooves can align the cells with the direction of stretch in a specialized "stretch chamber."
Credit: Image courtesy of Kyle Kurpinski, UC Berkeley
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