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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2016 Jun 14;40:164–169. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.05.006

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Cell culture systems can reproduce aspects of the cell microenvironment. A) Cells cultured on untreated TCPS adhere to adsorbed serum proteins and interact with soluble signals B) Complex biological functionalization adds insoluble cues derived from the extracellular matrix. C) Chemically defined, functionalizable materials (red) enable tailored presentation of bioactive ligands