Elisa D’Este

TL;DR: In this paper, a biophysical model of spine shape fluctuations was proposed, which reproduces experimentally measured spine fluctuations and predicts that the actin dynamics underlying shape fluctuations self-organizes into a critical state, which creates a fine balance between static actin filaments and free monomers.

TL;DR: This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of the EMMARM, as to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength.

TL;DR: It is found that the length and number of nanotubes critically depends on the cell type, whereby suspension cells form bigger networks than adherent cells, suggesting that molecular machines can be used to exert forces on living cells to probe membrane-to-cortex attachment.

TL;DR: In this article, photoactivatable xanthones (PaX) have been used to transform 3,6-diaminoxanthones into caging-group free photo-activatable fluorophores.