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Pere Roca-Cusachs
@pcusachs.bsky.social
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Cell biologist, bioengineer, or biophysicist, depending on the time of day. Group Leader at @ibecbarcelona.eu Professor at @medicinacs-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu
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Pere Roca-Cusachs @pcusachs.bsky.social · 2d
Mechanotransduction is no longer a phenomenon that occurs, it is also a feature that can be engineered! This is the nascent field of synthetic mechanotransduction. If interested, check out our review on the topic by Miguel González Martín and colleagues, which just came out:
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Pere Roca-Cusachs @pcusachs.bsky.social · Apr 1
Interested in how cells respond when squeezed? Check the review paper just published by Laura Faure, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and myself on this. Really thorough and clear revision by Laura and Valeria!
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Mar 28
In their Review, Laura Faure, Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and Pere Roca-Cusachs discuss the biological contexts of cell mechanical compression, the associated mechanisms and the experimental systems engineered to compress cells in vitro.
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Cartoon of techniques to apply one-dimensional, in-plane or volumetric cell compression in vitro.
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Pere Roca-Cusachs @pcusachs.bsky.social · Apr 1
Finally opening a bluesky account, long overdue! I plan to use this platform to provide updates on the work of our lab, with the first one coming right now.
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