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Rolled-up transparent microtubes are shown to serve as cell culture scaffolds that exactly define the space available for single cell growth. Human U2OS osteosarcoma cells are confined within microtubes of different diameters and the effects of the cell deformation on the integrity of the DNA and cell survival are studied.
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