Recent evidence clearly shows that cells respond to various physical cues in their
environments, guiding many cellular processes and tissue morphogenesis, pathology, and …

One of the most unique physical features of cell adhesion to external surfaces is the active
generation of mechanical force at the cell-material interface. This includes pulling forces …

Signals from the microenvironment around a cell are known to influence cell behavior.
Material properties, such as biochemical composition and substrate stiffness, are today …

Remarkable exertions are directed to reveal and understand topographic cues that induce
cell mechanical sensitive responses including lineage determination. Extracellular matrix …

Many essential cellular functions in health and disease are closely linked to the ability of
cells to respond to mechanical forces. In the context of cell adhesion to the extracellular …

Dynamic regulation of the filamentous actin (F-actin) cytoskeleton is critical to numerous
physical cellular processes, including cell adhesion, migration and division. Each of these …

Scaffolds for tissue engineering are usually designed to support cell viability with large
adhesion surfaces and high permeability to nutrients and oxygen. Recent experiments …

Two‐component 3D polymer scaffolds with distinct mechanical and protein‐binding
properties are fabricated using direct laser writing. With this method, full control over the …

Contractile actomyosin networks are responsible for the production of intracellular forces.
There is increasing evidence that bundles of actin filaments form interconnected and …

Motile cells—fan-like keratocytes, hand-shaped nerve growth cones, polygonal fibroblasts,
to name but a few—come in different shapes and sizes. We discuss the origins of this …