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Lawrence, B. D., Pan, Z., Weber, M. D., Kaplan, D. L., Rosenblatt, M. I. Silk Film Culture System for in vitro Analysis and Biomaterial Design. J. Vis. Exp. (62), e3646, doi:10.3791/3646 (2012).
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