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Cells sense and respond to the mechanical properties of the cellular microenvironment in the body. Changes in these properties, which occur in a number of human pathologies, including cancer, can elicit abnormal responses from cells but how the cells adapt to such changes in the mechanical microenvironment is not well understood.
A team of researchers at Texas A and M University are working to understand cellular mechanosensing- the ability to sense and respond to the mechanical properties of the microenvironment- in a unique way. Dr Tanmay Lele, Unocal Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Translational Medical Sciences, partnered with Dr Charles Baer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Florida. Together they used methods of experimental cellular evolution as a means to understand cellular adaptation to biomaterials of controlled mechanical properties.
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Kanpur: It is common in hiking trails, in the winter months, to encounter frozen stagnant bodies of water (like ponds, lakes) while being required to cross flowing streams/rivers of liquid water. However, the impact of flow on the freezing nature of fluids is far from being understood.
For the first time, using a combination of molecular simulations and an analytical approach, a team of scientists from IIT Kanpur headed by Prof. Jayant K. Singh and Prof. Indranil S. Dalal of the Department of Chemical Engineering have examined how velocity with which liquids flow has an impact at the pace which crystallization (better known as nucleation amongst the science fraternity) takes place.