Let's push things forward: disruptive technologies and the mechanics of tissue assembly

Fluid Shear Stress on Endothelial Cells Modulates Mechanical Tension across VE-Cadherin and PECAM-1

(2013) Daniel E. Conway et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Multidimensional traction force microscopy reveals out-of-plane rotational moments about focal adhesions

(2013) W. R. Legant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sculpting Organs: Mechanical Regulation of Tissue Development

(2012) Celeste M. Nelson et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Mapping of Mechanical Strains and Stresses around Quiescent Engineered Three-Dimensional Epithelial Tissues

(2012) Nikolce Gjorevski et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cell Mechanics, Structure, and Function Are Regulated by the Stiffness of the Three-Dimensional Microenvironment

(2012) J. Chen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Spatial mapping and quantification of developmental branching morphogenesis

(2012) K. Short et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A computational image analysis glossary for biologists

(2012) A. H. K. Roeder et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Force-induced fibronectin assembly and matrix remodeling in a 3D microtissue model of tissue morphogenesis

(2012) Wesley R. Legant et al.   Integrative Biology

Pulling on single molecules

(2012) Natalie de Souza   NATURE METHODS

Multiview light-sheet microscope for rapid in toto imaging

(2012) Uros Krzic et al.   NATURE METHODS

Quantitative high-speed imaging of entire developing embryos with simultaneous multiview light-sheet microscopy

(2012) Raju Tomer et al.   NATURE METHODS

Long-range mechanical force enables self-assembly of epithelial tubular patterns

(2012) C.-L. Guo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

E-cadherin is under constitutive actomyosin-generated tension that is increased at cell-cell contacts upon externally applied stretch

(2012) N. Borghi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growing up is stressful: biophysical laws of morphogenesis

(2011) Stephan W Grill   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Measuring the multi-scale integration of mechanical forces during morphogenesis

(2011) Guy B Blanchard et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Light sheet microscopy of living or cleared specimens

(2011) Philipp J Keller et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Collective cell guidance by cooperative intercellular forces

(2011) Dhananjay T. Tambe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Five challenges to bringing single-molecule force spectroscopy into living cells

(2011) Yves F Dufrêne et al.   NATURE METHODS

Fluid Mechanics of Microrheology

(2010) Todd M. Squires et al.   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Mechanics of head fold formation: investigating tissue-level forces during early development

(2010) V. D. Varner et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Mechanical control of tissue and organ development

(2010) T. Mammoto et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Endogenous patterns of mechanical stress are required for branching morphogenesis

(2010) Nikolce Gjorevski et al.   Integrative Biology

Probing Cellular Traction Forces by Micropillar Arrays: Contribution of Substrate Warping to Pillar Deflection

(2010) Ingmar Schoen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Measuring mechanical tension across vinculin reveals regulation of focal adhesion dynamics

(2010) Carsten Grashoff et al.   NATURE

Emerging properties of animal gene regulatory networks

(2010) Eric H. Davidson   NATURE

Measurement of mechanical tractions exerted by cells in three-dimensional matrices

(2010) Wesley R Legant et al.   NATURE METHODS

Fast, high-contrast imaging of animal development with scanned light sheet–based structured-illumination microscopy

(2010) Philipp J Keller et al.   NATURE METHODS

Rotation of Organizer Tissue Contributes to Left-Right Asymmetry

(2009) Cheng Cui et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Geometric control of tissue morphogenesis

(2009) Celeste M. Nelson   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Live Cells Exert 3-Dimensional Traction Forces on Their Substrata

(2009) Sung Sik Hur et al.   Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Tissue tectonics: morphogenetic strain rates, cell shape change and intercalation

(2009) Guy B Blanchard et al.   NATURE METHODS

Physical forces during collective cell migration

(2009) Xavier Trepat et al.   Nature Physics

Quantifying cellular traction forces in three dimensions

(2009) Stacey A. Maskarinec et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Image-based multiscale modeling predicts tissue-level and network-level fiber reorganization in stretched cell-compacted collagen gels

(2009) E. A. Sander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell Movements at Hensen's Node Establish Left/Right Asymmetric Gene Expression in the Chick

(2009) J. Gros et al.   SCIENCE

A fluorescence energy transfer-based mechanical stress sensor for specific proteins in situ

(2008) Fanjie Meng et al.   FEBS Journal

A New Method for Measuring Deformation of Folding Surfaces During Morphogenesis

(2008) Benjamen A. Filas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Live imaging of blood flow in mammalian embryos using Doppler swept-source optical coherence tomography

(2008) Irina V. Larina et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS

Nature and anisotropy of cortical forces orienting Drosophila tissue morphogenesis

(2008) Matteo Rauzi et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Three-dimensional lithographically defined organotypic tissue arrays for quantitative analysis of morphogenesis and neoplastic progression

(2008) Celeste M Nelson et al.   Nature Protocols

Mechanotransduction in development: a growing role for contractility

(2008) Michele A. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Reconstruction of Zebrafish Early Embryonic Development by Scanned Light Sheet Microscopy

(2008) P. J. Keller et al.   SCIENCE

Cytoskeletal Bundle Mechanics

(2007) Mark Bathe et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL