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Pairing cells to enhance fusion

Nature Methods volume 6, pages 123–124 (2009)Cite this article

A microfluidic device enhances the efficiency of cell membrane fusion by increasing the efficiency of cell pairing.

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Figure 1: A microfluidic chip is more efficient in generating pairs of different cell types than the conventional tissue culture system and thus increases the yield of fused cells.

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  1. Peter W. Zandstra is at the Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada. peter.zandstra@utoronto.ca,

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