🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share our latest work in Nature Communications spearheaded by brilliant Oscar Maiques showing how matrix mechano-sensing at the invasive front induces a cytoskeletal and transcriptional memory that supports metastasis! 🧵⬇️

Rheology of melting cheese!

Congratulations to Zihui, Sano-san, and the team on this interesting work! They found that +1 topological defects attract neural progenitors—an observation that seems at odds with expectation for an extensile active nematic. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨BREAKTHROUGH: 1st kidney transplant from a frozen organ! The technique used to freeze and thaw the organ was developed by NSF ATP-Bio, #UMNIEM research center! Read more from The New York Times: lnkd.in/ezkFghAw #UMNProud

Very happy and excited to share that this work is now published in Nature Physics ! rdcu.be/eigWi Faculty of Science | UNIGE Université de Genève Institut Polytechnique de Paris École polytechnique

A baby named KJ, who was born with a rare genetic disorder – CPS1 deficiency – is healed thanks to doctors at the Children's Hospital who administered the world’s first personalized gene-editing treatment. The research team used base editing, a gene-editing method invented by HHMI

Our latest work sheds light on the striking similarities between the non-linear mechanical responses of particle-filled polymer hydrogels and biological tissues - out now in Nature Physics: nature.com/articles/s4156… /w Gareth McKinley MIT MechE

Thank you for highlighting our preprint, preLights Sharvari Pitke !!!

It’s been a long time coming but… so happy my Ph.D. work (part of) is now published on Nature Materials 🥳 I remember it all too well about this project, the serendipity and the exciting stories…🧵Jennifer Young Mechanobiology Institute NUSBME NUS nature.com/articles/s4156…