Living cells are an active soft material with fascinating mechanical properties. Under
mechanical loading, cells exhibit creep and stress relaxation behavior that follows a power …

It is now widely appreciated that normal tissue morphology and function rely upon cells'
ability to sense and generate forces appropriate to their correct tissue context. Although the …

Living cells are a complex soft material with fascinating mechanical properties. A striking
feature is that, regardless of their types or states, cells exhibit a universal power-law …

With every beat of the heart, inflation of the lung or peristalsis of the gut, cell types of diverse
function are subjected to substantial stretch. Stretch is a potent stimulus for growth …

The viscoelastic response of living cells to small external forces and deformations is
characterized by a weak power law in time. The elastic modulus of cells and the power law …

Understanding the viscoelastic properties of living cells and their relation to cell state and
morphology remains challenging. Low-frequency mechanical perturbations have …

The cytoskeleton (CSK) of the adherent living cell is arguably the most complex form of soft
matter that exists in nature. It is constituted by hundreds of different proteins that interact with …

The mechanical properties of cells are dominated by the cytoskeleton, a crosslinked network
of protein filaments. Unlike synthetic polymer networks, the cell cytoskeleton is a highly …

The unique mechanical performance of animal cells and tissues is attributed mostly to their
internal biopolymer meshworks. Its perplexing universality and robustness against structural …

The dynamic mechanical behavior of living cells has been proposed to result from timescale-
invariant processes governed by the soft glass rheology theory derived from soft matter …