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Arrays of microposts of different heights generate substrates with different flexibility, on which cells can be grown.

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Buxboim, A., Discher, D. Stem cells feel the difference. Nat Methods 7, 695–697 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0910-695

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