2- and 3-dimensional synthetic large-scale de novo patterning by mammalian cells through phase separation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cachat, Elise ^a   Liu, Weijia ^a   Martin, Kim C ^a   Yuan, Xiaofei ^b   Yin, Huabing ^b   Hohenstein, Peter ^c   Davies, Jamie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; HUMANS; MICE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84957542463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20664     Document Type: Article

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