Multicellular organisms generate tissues of diverse shapes and functions from cells and
extracellular matrices. Their adhesion molecules mediate cell-cell and cell-matrix …

Cells sense and respond to the physical properties of their environment through receptor-
mediated signaling, a process known as mechanotransduction, which can modulate critical …

Cells connect with their environment through surface receptors and use physical tension in
receptor–ligand bonds for various cellular processes. Single-molecule techniques have …

The extracellular matrix (ECM) governs a wide spectrum of cellular fate processes, with a
particular emphasis on anoikis, an integrin‐dependent form of cell death. Currently, anoikis …

Mechanical forces drive critical cellular processes that are reflected in mechanical
phenotypes, or mechanotypes, of cells and their microenvironment. We present here …

As a new enabling nanotechnology tool for wireless, target-specific, and long-distance
stimulation of mechanoreceptors in vivo, here we present a hydrogel magnetomechanical …

Integrins are heterodimeric cell-surface receptors that regulate cell–cell adhesion and
cellular functions through bidirectional signaling. On the other hand, anomalous trafficking of …

a) Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: abuganza@ purdue. edu.
Tepole Mechanics and Mechanobiology Lab: engineering. purdue. edu/tepolelab/mofrad …

Cancer metastasis is affected by chemical factors and physical cues. From cell adhesion to
migration, mechanical tension applied to integrin expresses on the cell membrane and …

DNA-based tension sensors have innovated the imaging and calibration of
mechanosensitive receptor-transmitted molecular forces, such as integrin tensions …