ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology2016
A toolbox to explore the mechanics of living embryonic tissues.
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- TiFM2.0 - versatile mechanical measurement and actuation in live embryos.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- A minimal mechanically consistent model of smoothly dividing disk-shaped cells.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026Article
- Protocol for inferring mechanical stresses in tissues using ForSys, an open-source Python tool.STAR protocols · 2026Article
- Guidance for 3D traction force microscopy today and in the next decade.Nature methods · 2026Review
- Discovering the unexpected: Insights into the dynamics of mouse neural tube closure revealed by time-lapse imaging.Developmental biology · 2026Review
- Tissue fluidity mediates a trade-off between the speed and accuracy of multicellular patterning by cell sorting.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Tissue Fluidity Mediates a Trade-off Between the Speed and Accuracy of Multicellular Patterning by Cell Sorting.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- 3D multiscale shape analysis of nuclei and in vivo elastic stress sensors allows force inference.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- STRESS, an automated geometrical characterization of deformable particles for in vivo measurements of cell and tissue mechanical stresses.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Embryoid bodies as a model system for exploring early human embryonic development.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025Review
- Geometrical constraints dictate assembly and phenotype of human iPSC-derived motoneuronal spheroids.Stem cell research & therapy · 2025Article
- The Mechanics of Building Functional Organs.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2025Review
- Peeking into the future: inferring mechanics in dynamical tissues.Biochemical Society transactions · 2024Review
- Effective protection of biological tissues from severe blunt force injury by engineered nanoscale liquid flow.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Live-cell imaging under centrifugation characterized the cellular force for nuclear centration in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Measurement of adhesion and traction of cells at high yield reveals an energetic ratchet operating during nephron condensation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- An emerging role for tissue plasticity in developmental precision.Biochemical Society transactions · 2024Review
- Conserved physical mechanisms of cell and tissue elongation.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- Adherens junctions as molecular regulators of emergent tissue mechanics.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2024Review
- Measurement of adhesion and traction of cells at high yield (MATCHY) reveals an energetic ratchet driving nephron condensation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The sculpting of embryonic tissues and organs into their functional morphologies involves the spatial and temporal regulation of mechanics at cell and tissue scales. Decades of in vitro work, complemented by some in vivo studies, have shown the relevance of mechanical cues in the control of cell behaviors that are central to developmental processes, but the lack of methodologies enabling precise, quantitative measurements of mechanical cues in vivo have hindered our understanding of the role of mechanics in embryonic development. Several methodologies are starting to enable quantitative studies of mechanics in vivo and in situ, opening new avenues to explore how mechanics contributes to shaping embryonic tissues and how it affects cell behavior within developing embryos. Here we review the present methodologies to study the role of mechanics in living embryonic tissues, considering their strengths and drawbacks as well as the conditions in which they are most suitable.
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