Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Mucus is a complex biological material that lubricates and protects the human lungs,
gastrointestinal (GI) tract, vagina, eyes, and other moist mucosal surfaces. Mucus serves as …

Recent developments in 3D printing technologies and design have been nothing short of
spectacular. Parallel to this, development of bioinks has also emerged as an active research …

A cell undergoes many genetic and epigenetic changes as it transitions to malignancy.
Malignant transformation is also accompanied by a progressive loss of tissue homeostasis …

Defining the interplay between the genetic events and microenvironmental contexts
necessary to initiate tumorigenesis in normal cells is a central endeavour in cancer biology …

As physical entities, living cells possess structural and physical properties that enable them
to withstand the physiological environment as well as mechanical stimuli occurring within …

Solid tumours are often first diagnosed by palpation, suggesting that the tumour is more rigid
than its surrounding environment. Paradoxically, individual cancer cells appear to be softer …

Living systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymatic activity can induce
broken detailed balance at the molecular scale. This molecular scale breaking of detailed …

A multitude of cellular and subcellular processes depend critically on the mechanical
deformability of the cytoplasm. We have recently introduced the method of particle-tracking …

In microrheology, the local and bulk mechanical properties of a complex fluid are extracted
from the motion of probe particles embedded within it. In passive microrheology, particles …