Just as in clay moulding or glass blowing, physically sculpting biological structures requires
the constituent material to locally flow like a fluid while maintaining overall mechanical …

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate many critical physiological processes. Their
spatial organization in plasma membrane (PM) domains is believed to encode signaling …

The bioorthogonal nature of perfluorocarbons provides a unique platform for introducing
dynamic nano-and microdroplets into cells and organisms. To monitor the localization and …

Multicellular spheroids serve as an excellent platform to study tissue behavior and tumor
growth in a controlled, three-dimensional (3D) environment. While molecular and cellular …

From cellular mechanotransduction to the formation of embryonic tissues and organs,
mechanics has been shown to play an important role in the control of cell behavior and …

Bottom‐up synthetic biology has reconstituted processes like adhesion, cortex formation, or
division of giant lipid vesicles (GUVs), which all rely on changes in the vesicle morphology …

The study of morphogenesis in animals is concerned with the question of how the structures
composing the body acquire their form during embryonic development. As cells are able to …

In addition to the well-established influence that soluble factors have on cellular behavior,
physical forces are also now known to play a large role. Many cellular processes such as …