How do individual proteins sculpt the epithelial basement membrane? Our new study uncovers their role in network structure, nematic alignment & fractal patterns. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CellBiology #ECM #BasementMembrane

Why do secondary #tumors go for #MET during the metastatic cascade? Our new study suggests that immune evasion—rather than faster proliferation—might give them the edge. 👉 cell.com/iscience/ful... #CancerResearch #TumorBiology #Immunology #Metastasis

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Super proud of superstar postdocs @nerlielisa.bsky.social and @liujinghui.bsky.social for our lab's most recent preprint! We uncover how wound-induced electrical currents are generated and transmitted in tissues, triggering proliferation, essential for organ #regeneration #bioelectricity #QBio 👇

📢 Preprint alert 📢 (1/6) Our work on 3D force inference for intestinal organoids is now on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Stunning collaboration between @omdrozdowski.bsky.social and @kimboonekamp.bsky.social from the lab of @michaelboutros.bsky.social and with Ulrike Engel. A short🧵...

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Surprised by how long it’s taking PNAS to process our manuscript. Anyone else having trouble recently? #AcademicTwitter #Publishing

It’s the #filopodia, stupid! 🚀 We just released our new study uncovering how filopodia and hydrostatic #pressure contribute to the regulation of #membrane #tension. 👉 Check it out on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cellbiology #biophysics #actin #mechanobiology

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It turns out that #EggChamber #elongation and rotation can be decoupled in #Drosophila egg chamber #morphogenesis - check out our recent collaborative work with the Dahmann lab. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... . Congrats to Akanksha Bhatt and Valentin Ruffine 👏🥳