Endothelial Cells Grown in Paper (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Endothelial Cells Grown in Paper

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Endothelial cells grown in small stacks of paper, forming vessel-like structures that crawl among the cellulose fibers (cellulose fibers are purple, nucleus is yellow and the cytoskeleton is red). Harvard researchers have found that paper is an excellent medium for culturing cells with the accuracy of a 3-D medium and the simplicity of a 2-D one.

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