Cells of the vascular wall are exquisitely sensitive to changes in their mechanical
environment. In healthy vessels, mechanical forces regulate signaling and gene expression …

The fascinating patterns of collective motion created by autonomously driven particles have
fuelled active-matter research for over two decades. So far, theoretical active-matter …

Throughout the past six months, no number has dominated the public media more
persistently than the reproduction number of COVID-19. This powerful but simple concept is …

Precision medicine is a new frontier in healthcare that uses scientific methods to customize
medical treatment to the individual genes, anatomy, physiology, and lifestyle of each person …

Abstract Machine learning is increasingly recognized as a promising technology in the
biological, biomedical, and behavioral sciences. There can be no argument that this …

The collagen molecular family is the result of nearly one billion years of evolution. It is a
unique family of proteins, the majority of which provide general mechanical support to …

Hierarchy provides unique opportunities for the design of advanced materials with superior
properties that arise from architecture, rather than from constitutive material response …

Soft biological tissues compromise diverse cell types and extracellular matrix constituents,
each of which can possess individual natural configurations, material properties, and rates …

Tissue growth in bioscaffolds is influenced significantly by pore geometry, but how this
geometric dependence emerges from dynamic cellular processes such as cell proliferation …

Morphogenesis of active shells such as cells is a fundamental chemomechanical process
that often exhibits three-dimensional (3D) large deformations and chemical pattern …