12 December 2019 2 3K Report

Few minutes after adding PBS 1x to wash 3D printed scaffolds, the gel got all dissolved. Loads of papers use PBS to wash it and apparently they did not have any problem. Any advice? Did anyone has this problem? Also, I decided to try lower PBS concentrations, but I'm afraid I'll have problems to perform immunofluorescence using this "different" PBS.

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