Sentences with phrase «how mechanical forces»

At the molecular level, he is discovering how mechanical forces signal gene expression to cause cell growth, migration and cell death.

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Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, started investigating this «architecture of life» over thirty - five years ago, and discovered that Nature uses an architectural principle known as «tensegrity» (short for «tensional integrity») to stabilize the shapes of living cells and to determine how they respond to mechanical forces.

At the University of Cologne, biophysicists in the lab of Professor Berenike Maier were now able to show how differential mechanical forces can lead to cell sorting in biofilms, thereby determining their architecture.

In their publication in the journal eLife, the team headed by the biophysicist Enno Oldewurtel showed how specific mechanical forces can be the key to the structure of a biofilm.

Until recently, it was unclear how the physical pressure of a light touch gets transduced from a mechanical force to an electrical nerve signal in Merkel discs.

By isolating mechanical and biological variables one by one in vitro, Mooney and his research team have discovered how the physical forces and chemical environment in those dense tissues can drive cells into a dangerously invasive, proliferating mode.

«The sensors could give surgeons real - time feedback on how much force they can use during surgery without damaging the tissue,» said Kaiyan Qiu, a University of Minnesota mechanical engineering postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper.

Knowing how cells exert force and sense mechanical feedback in their microenvironment is crucial to understanding how they activate a wide range of cellular functions, such as cell reproduction, differentiation and adhesion — basic physiological processes that underlie embryo development, tumor metastasis, wound healing and many other aspects of human health and disease.

How do mechanical processes like cell adhesion and force generation influence tissue organization?

\ n \ n «It?s still not clear how the cells sense shear stress, and researchers are trying to unravel the chain of events between mechanical force and stem cell production in order to manipulate the process to make blood stem cells for transplant.»

With various colleagues, he created the first mechanical models of how cells and tissues form and change during development, how cells move and how nano - scale molecular motors inside cells exert forces on a pico - Newton scale.

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Should have said: This is the essence of how the overall local effect of gravitational forces acting on an object are reduced to the net effect of tidal forces in the Newtonian mechanical view.

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