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Three-dimensional Culture of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

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  1. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA

    Sharon Gerecht

  2. Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA

    Jason A. Burdick

  3. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA

    Christopher Cannizzaro

  4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1210 Amsterdam Avenue, 8904, 10027, New York, NY, USA

    Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

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    John R. Masters

  2. University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Bernhard O. Palsson

  3. University of Wisconsin Medical School, 470 N. Charter Street, 53706-1509, Madison, WI, USA

    James A. Thomson

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Gerecht, S., Burdick, J.A., Cannizzaro, C., Vunjak-Novakovic, G. (2007). Three-dimensional Culture of Human Embryonic Stem Cells. In: Masters, J.R., Palsson, B.O., Thomson, J.A. (eds) Human Cell Culture. Human Cell Culture, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5983-4_9

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