Novel Approaches in Mechanobiology Research

Dear Colleagues,

Mechanobiology has rapidly gained importance in the last few decades. It is a very interdisciplinary field that studies the importance of mechanical forces and environmental sensing across all traditional fields of biology (cell biology, developmental biology, immunology). It is rapidly gaining thrust in biomedical sciences. Measuring and applying forces in biological samples, understanding how the biophysical parameters of the microenvironment are sensed and integrated at the molecular, cellular and tissue levels has raised important methodological challenges.

This Special Issue aims a providing a platform for new methods in the mechanobiology field. New conceptual, imaging, microfabrication, biochemical, biomaterial, biophysical and computational approaches will be considered.

We invite the community to submit peer-reviewed methods/protocols or reviews in the above-mentioned fields to start building a repository of methods. We expect that this special issue will contribute to help mechanobiology bridging with traditional biology fields often hampered by difficulties of interdisciplinarity.

Dr. Virgile Viasnoff
Dr. Pierre-François Lenne
Guest Editors

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• mechanobiology
• biophysical characterization
• environmental sensing
• imaging
• biomaterial
• organoid
• cell culture
• mechanical force

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