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  1. Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Enders 1007 300 Longwood Avenue, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts

    Clifford Brangwynne, Sui Huang, Kevin Kit Parker & Donald E. Ingber

  2. Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Enders 1007 300 Longwood Avenue, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts

    Clifford Brangwynne, Sui Huang, Kevin Kit Parker & Donald E. Ingber

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Brangwynne, C., Huang, S., Parker, K.K. et al. Symmetry breaking in cultured mammalian cells. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Animal 36, 563–565 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02577523

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