Fast, high-resolution, non-destructive and quantitative characterization methods are needed
to develop materials with tailored properties at the nanoscale or to understand the …

Mechanobiology emerges at the crossroads of medicine, biology, biophysics and
engineering and describes how the responses of proteins, cells, tissues and organs to …

The elastic response of a living cell is affected by its physiological state. This property
provides mechanical fingerprints of a cell's dysfunctionality. The softness (kilopascal range) …

This paper is devoted to an analytical, numerical, and experimental analysis of adhesive
contacts subjected to tangential motion. In particular, it addresses the phenomenon of …

Nuclei are often under external stress, be it during migration through tight constrictions or
compressive pressure by the actin cap, and the mechanical properties of nuclei govern their …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has found a wide range of bio-applications in the past few
decades due to its ability to measure biological samples in natural environments at a high …

It is increasingly appreciated that the cell nucleus is not only a home for DNA but also a
complex material that resists physical deformations and dynamically responds to external …

With the invention of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in 1986 and the subsequent
developments in liquid imaging and cellular imaging it became possible to study the …

At the cellular level, α-tubulin acetylation alters the structure of microtubules to render them
mechanically resistant to compressive forces. How this biochemical property of microtubule …

Cell mechanics is crucial for a wide range of cell functions, including proliferation, polarity,
migration and differentiation. Cells sense external physical cues and translate them into a …