Precise docking sites for cells
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 10:31
in Biology & Nature
The Petri dish is a classical biological laboratory device, but it is no ideal living environment for many types of cells. Studies lose validity, as cell behavior on a flat plastic surface differs from that in branched lung tissue, for example. Researchers have now presented a method to make three-dimensional structures attractive or repellent for certain types of cells.