Relieving the Pressure on Tissue Development

Understanding how tissue patterning emerges during embryogenesis is a long-standing goal of developmental biology. In particular, the complex interplay between extracellular and intracellular mechanical forces and biochemical cues that lead to cellular differentiation and ultimately adult tissue remains an active area of investigation. One of the main challenges has been that experimental methods that allow for the simultaneous measurement of mechanical force and biochemical signaling are limited.

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