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Patterning surfaces with functional polymers

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Microfluidic scaffolds for tissue engineering

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Three-dimensional manipulation of single cells using surface acoustic waves

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Hydrogels as Extracellular Matrices for Skeletal Tissue Engineering: State-of-the-Art and Novel Application in Organ Printing

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Microfluidic cell culture systems for drug research

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Cell patterning technologies for organotypic tissue fabrication

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Fuel‐Free Synthetic Micro‐/Nanomachines

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A novel 3D mammalian cell perfusion-culture system in microfluidic channels

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Nanotechnology, nanotoxicology, and neuroscience

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Engineering microscale cellular niches for three-dimensional multicellular co-cultures

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The regulation of stem cell differentiation by cell-cell contact on micropatterned material surfaces

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Engineering cancer microenvironments for in vitro 3-D tumor models

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Cell and tissue engineering for liver disease

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Effect of cell anisotropy on differentiation of stem cells on micropatterned surfaces through the controlled single cell adhesion

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Scaffold-Free Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Utilizing Micromolded Nonadhesive Hydrogels

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3D printed silk-gelatin hydrogel scaffold with different porous structure and cell seeding strategy for cartilage regeneration

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Micro-bioreactor array for controlling cellular microenvironments

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Designing synthetic materials to control stem cell phenotype

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A gel-free 3D microfluidic cell culture system

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3D bioprinting: improving in vitro models of metastasis with heterogeneous tumor microenvironments

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Two‐Photon polymerization for microfabrication of three‐dimensional scaffolds for tissue engineering application

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The use of electric fields in tissue engineering: A review

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Bridging the gap: microfluidic devices for short and long distance cell–cell communication

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Three Dimensional Microfluidic Cell Arrays for ex Vivo Drug Screening with Mimicked Vascular Flow

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Liver Tissue Engineering as an Emerging Alternative for Liver Disease Treatment

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Chemotaxis-driven assembly of endothelial barrier in a tumor-on-a-chip platform

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Biomarkers for simplifying HTS 3D cell culture platforms for drug discovery: the case for cytokines

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Acoustically-driven thread-based tuneable gradient generators

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Liver microsystems in vitro for drug response

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