The synthetic PIC gel, discovered in 2013 by Radboud University chemists, appears to behave like collagen. This makes the gel very useful for studying interactions between cells and their immediate environment. In practice, this means that the gel seems highly suitable to grow cells in for biological and clinical research. An additional advantage is that unlike the gels commonly used for cell culture, this gel requires no breeding and killing of mice. The latest findings were published on April 4 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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