Cells in tissues experience a plethora of forces that regulate their fate and modulate
development and homeostasis. Cells sense mechanical cues through localized …

Mechanical cues are crucial for survival, adaptation, and normal homeostasis in virtually
every cell type. The transduction of mechanical messages into intracellular biochemical …

Enormous amounts of essential intracellular events are crowdedly packed inside picoliter-
sized cellular space. However, the significance of the physical properties of cells remains …

Biological materials such as extracellular matrix scaffolds, cancer cells, and tissues are often
assumed to respond elastically for simplicity; the viscoelastic response is quite commonly …

Women diagnosed with high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOC) are still likely to
exhibit a bad prognosis, particularly when suffering from HGSOC of the Mesenchymal …

Aberrant mechanical factor is one of the etiologies of the intervertebral disc (IVD)
degeneration (IVDD). However, the exact molecular mechanism of spinal mechanical …

Apoptosis, the most extensively studied form of programmed cell death, is essential for
organismal homeostasis. Apoptotic cell death has widely been reported as a tumor …

Uterine leiomyoma is the most common tumor of the female reproductive system and
originates from a single transformed myometrial smooth muscle cell. Despite the immense …

What you see is what you get—imaging techniques have long been essential for
visualization and understanding of tissue development, homeostasis, and regeneration …

Mechanosensation, the ability to properly sense mechanical stimuli and transduce them into
physiologic responses, is an essential determinant of gastrointestinal (GI) function …