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Cultivation of Caenorhabditis elegans in Three Dimensions in the Laboratory.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE - 12 Dec 2016
Lee Tong Y, Yoon Kyoung-Hye, Lee Jin I
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The use of genetic model organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans has led to seminal discoveries in biology over the last five decades. Most of what we know about C. elegans is limited to laboratory cultivation of the nematodes that may not necessarily reflect the environments they normally inhabit in nature. Cultivation of C. elegans in a 3D habitat that is more similar to the 3D matrix that worms encounter in...
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