Sentences with phrase «of mechanobiology»

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.)-- Researchers in the field of mechanobiology are revealing new insights into how the body's physical forces and mechanics impact development, physiological health, and the prevention and treatment of disease.

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Data from these studies will provide the controlled mechanical environment for studies of breast cancer mechanobiology.

This collaboration reflects work of The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, a National Science Foundation - funded Science and Technology Center that supports interdisciplinary research on the way cells exert and are influenced by the physical forces in their environment.

One area of research within mechanobiology, the study of how physical forces influence biological processes, is on the interplay between cells and their environment and how it impacts their ability to grow and spread.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by Vivek Shenoy, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of Penn's Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, along with Xuan Cao and Ehsan Ban, members of his lab.

Lim's team sits in the NUS Mechanobiology Institute and the faculty of engineering, and as he consults with biologists and clinicians as dictated by the nature of his various projects, he stresses the need for engineers and physical scientists to partner with medical doctors early and regularly in the innovation process.

A team of researchers, led by Keiko Kawauchi from the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore, studied cells that had been transformed into cancer cells by Ras, the most common oncogene in human cancer.

«New mechanobiology technique to stop cancer cell migration: Researchers have synthesized a molecule that targets the membranes of cervical cancer cells to block their migration.»

Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore, report that endocytosis, which was previously thought to be a random process, actually occurs in a coordinated manner through collective dynamics.

Researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), National University of Singapore (NUS) have identified a novel mechanosensitive regulation of epithelial tube contraction.

«The role of mechanical forces in the behaviour of biological cells has long been overlooked, but then has become a rapidly growing field of research over the last two decades now known as mechanobiology,» states Prof. Schwarz.

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A * STAR, and BioSyM, Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have described the mechanical principles adopted by liver cells as they remove excess bile during obstructive cholestasis.

Another aspect has something to do with a more recent field of cell biology, the mechanobiology.

Researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute have comprehensively described the network of proteins involved in cell - cell adhesions, or the cadherin interactome.

To better identify the components of this wider network in maintaining and regulating adhesion, researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, applied a combination of experimental and computational techniques to reveal and dissect the complex network of proteins that interact with E-cadherin.

Judah Folkman Award in Vascular Biology Lecture Insights into the Mechanobiology of the Endothelium Guillermo García - Cardeña, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School