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Tayhas Palmore and Kwang-Min Kim, Brown University

Caption: One size doesn't fit all: Tayhas Palmore and Kwang-Min Kim showed that lamnin, the preferred scaffold for peripheral nerve cells, is not the best choice for culturing cells from the central nervous system. The protein apoE4 works much better.

Credit: Mike Cohea/Brown University

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