Looking for a summer read?🏖️🌞📄 You're in luck 😂. Our paper on optogenetic leader cells is out Nature Physics. We found a force-velocity relation for collective cell migration. Experiments by Leone Rossetti, theory by @ricardalert. IBEC rdcu.be/dQDmM

.Ignasi Granero-Moya, Ion Andreu, Pere Roca-Cusachs & colleagues find that nucleocytoplasmic transport senses mechanical forces independently of cell density in cell monolayers. #OpenAccess #ReadAndPublish Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13… Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…

Thrilled to share my postdoctoral work exploring how brain mechanics influences metastasis, now out in Nature Cell Biology. Check it out! #ChenLab CMTM, Boston University Biological Design Center, Boston University Wyss Institute nature.com/articles/s4155…

Through 3D micropatterned traction force microscopy, scientists can now measure the forces cells exert on their environment. Pere Roca-Cusachs and team used it to show how epithelial cells switch between contracting and extending as their volume changes. 👉 ow.ly/kMps50TSMf1

#PCBCommunity | An IBEC-led study reveales how #mesenchymal_stem_cells respond to viscosity in their environment 📝Nature Communications The findings could revolutionise the #biomaterials design for #regenerativemedicine ▶️bit.ly/4eyqeTy Manuel Salmeron Alex Rodrigo

I never intended this account to be about politics but there is a limit to everything. So, a bit late, but finally moving to Bluesky. Please check @pcusachs.bsky.social for updates on our lab, with the first one coming today!