Emil Millet

TL;DR: These unexpected findings demonstrate that although the leader cell may have a pivotal role in local cell guidance, physical forces that it generates are but a small part of a global tug-of-war involving cells well back from the leading edge.

TL;DR: These findings define an unanticipated integrative framework for studying protein interactions within the complex microenvironment of the cell body, and appear to set limits on what can be predicted about integrated mechanical behavior of the matrix based solely on cytoskeletal constituents considered in isolation.

TL;DR: These findings strongly suggest that at smaller timescales elasticity arises from entropic fluctuations of a semiflexible-filament network, whereas on longer timesCales slow (soft-glass-like) dynamics of a different origin prevail.

TL;DR: Despite departures of the properties of the real lung from the characteristics of the acoustically equivalent structure, changes in the area-distance function computed by this technique provide reasonable estimates of the magnitude and serial distribution of actual changes in airway cross-sectional area.

TL;DR: Using monolayer stress microscopy, it is found that cells located near the island exert tractions that pull systematically towards this island regardless of whether the cells approach the island, migrate tangentially along its edge or, paradoxically, recede from it.