Grateful to see our recent work on the mechanics of fibroblast activation featured by NJIT. news.njit.edu/unveiling-bi...

1️⃣ For years, scientists have known that mechanical tension influences cell behavior. But in our recent study in Nature Materials @naturematerials.bsky.social we found that it is not just the amount of tension—it is the direction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our latest work through our collaboration with Guy Genin, led by @faridalisafaei.bsky.social ! source.washu.edu/2025/03/the-...

1️⃣ For a long time, we have known that mechanical stretching influences how cells behave. But in our new PNAS paper @pnas.org, we show that fibroblasts do not just respond to stretch—they remember it. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Tension-Induced Stiffening of Cytoskeletal Components Regulates Cardiomyocyte Contractility https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640898v1

(1) How can we better predict how much a meshed skin graft expands? What if surgeons had a practical tool to minimize the harvested skin needed for wound coverage? Our new work in Acta Biomaterialia tackles this challenge: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...