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Plants have rigid cell walls that prevent uniform expansion, so it wasn’t possible to use ExM well with them. Cox & colleagues’ solution is simple: you use protoplasts instead of cells. These are plant cells with their walls removed. The resulting cell-lite can expand by up to 10 times.
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