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can be employed for directly delivering living organisms, which are also promising ways for
delivering cells into the defective sites, or even in three-dimensional scaffolds.
Acknowledgements
This research was supported by NRF-Technion grant (R-398-798 001-065-592) and the
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, Faculty of Engineering, National University
of Singapore, Singapore.
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