Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting

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Geometric signatures of tissue surface tension in a three-dimensional model of confluent tissue

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F-Actin Interactome Reveals Vimentin as a Key Regulator of Actin Organization and Cell Mechanics in Mitosis

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Inferring statistical properties of 3D cell geometry from 2D slices

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No evidence of involvement of E-cadherin in cell fate specification or the segregation of Epi and PrE in mouse blastocysts

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A geometrically controlled rigidity transition in a model for confluent 3D tissues

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Soft yet Sharp Interfaces in a Vertex Model of Confluent Tissue

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Actin cortex architecture regulates cell surface tension

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Membrane tension: A challenging but universal physical parameter in cell biology

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Actomyosin polarisation through PLC-PKC triggers symmetry breaking of the mouse embryo

(2017) Meng Zhu et al.   Nature Communications

Single-Cell Landscape of Transcriptional Heterogeneity and Cell Fate Decisions during Mouse Early Gastrulation

(2017) Hisham Mohammed et al.   Cell Reports

Patterned cortical tension mediated by N-cadherin controls cell geometric order in the Drosophila eye

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Plasticity of the inner cell mass in mouse blastocyst is restricted by the activity of FGF/MAPK pathway

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Focal Adhesion–Independent Cell Migration

(2016) Ewa K. Paluch et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Various Themes of Myosin Regulation

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Asymmetric division of contractile domains couples cell positioning and fate specification

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Asynchronous fate decisions by single cells collectively ensure consistent lineage composition in the mouse blastocyst

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Sincell: an R/Bioconductor package for statistical assessment of cell-state hierarchies from single-cell RNA-seq: Fig. 1.

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Confinement and Low Adhesion Induce Fast Amoeboid Migration of Slow Mesenchymal Cells

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Pulsatile cell-autonomous contractility drives compaction in the mouse embryo

(2015) Jean-Léon Maître et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Unjamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium

(2015) Jin-Ah Park et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A density-independent rigidity transition in biological tissues

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HTSeq--a Python framework to work with high-throughput sequencing data

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Resetting Transcription Factor Control Circuitry toward Ground-State Pluripotency in Human

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The dynamics and regulators of cell fate decisions are revealed by pseudotemporal ordering of single cells

(2014) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The ability of inner-cell-mass cells to self-renew as embryonic stem cells is acquired following epiblast specification

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Full-length RNA-seq from single cells using Smart-seq2

(2014) Simone Picelli et al.   Nature Protocols

Quantification of surface tension and internal pressure generated by single mitotic cells

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Membrane Tension in Rapidly Moving Cells Is Determined by Cytoskeletal Forces

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Atypical protein kinase C couples cell sorting with primitive endoderm maturation in the mouse blastocyst

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Cell-to-cell expression variability followed by signal reinforcement progressively segregates early mouse lineages

(2013) Yusuke Ohnishi et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

PDGF signaling is required for primitive endoderm cell survival in the inner cell mass of the mouse blastocyst

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Tracking mechanics and volume of globular cells with atomic force microscopy using a constant-height clamp

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Knowing the Boundaries: Extending the Differential Adhesion Hypothesis in Embryonic Cell Sorting

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Adhesion Functions in Cell Sorting by Mechanically Coupling the Cortices of Adhering Cells

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The role of adhesion energy in controlling cell–cell contacts

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Differential plasticity of epiblast and primitive endoderm precursors within the ICM of the early mouse embryo

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FGF signal-dependent segregation of primitive endoderm and epiblast in the mouse blastocyst

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Resolution of Cell Fate Decisions Revealed by Single-Cell Gene Expression Analysis from Zygote to Blastocyst

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Mechanics and remodelling of cell packings in epithelia

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Organizing the cell cortex: the role of ERM proteins

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Control of Directed Cell Migration In Vivo by Membrane-to-Cortex Attachment

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Active cell movements coupled to positional induction are involved in lineage segregation in the mouse blastocyst

(2009) Sigolène M. Meilhac et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Hippo Signaling Pathway Components Lats and Yap Pattern Tead4 Activity to Distinguish Mouse Trophectoderm from Inner Cell Mass

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A robust and high-throughput Cre reporting and characterization system for the whole mouse brain

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Distinct sequential cell behaviours direct primitive endoderm formation in the mouse blastocyst

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The ground state of embryonic stem cell self-renewal

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Tensile forces govern germ-layer organization in zebrafish

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Crosstalk between small GTPases and polarity proteins in cell polarization

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Blebs lead the way: how to migrate without lamellipodia

(2008) Guillaume Charras et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Dynamic expression of Lrp2 pathway members reveals progressive epithelial differentiation of primitive endoderm in mouse blastocyst

(2007) François Gerbe et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tead4 is required for specification of trophectoderm in pre-implantation mouse embryos

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