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What A Difference a Dimension Makes

Caption: Cells grown in traditional 2-D culture, at left, are flattened with shorter neurite projections. Cells grown in 3-D, right, look more like cells in the body -- rounder with longer neurite projections.

Credit: Diane Hoffman-Kim/Brown University

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