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The Camelot paper is now published. If you ever wanted to try biomechanics, Camelot is an inexpensive and easy way to get started. @matmajda.bsky.social

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28.04.2025 08:09 — 👍 13    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Big thanks to Daniel Cosgrove & Enrico Coen
@innerworldsjic.bsky.social for spotlighting our paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Let’s call for more in vivo data on growth, elasticity & stress. Time to fuel the field with experiments! 🔬🖥️📏🧪🌿
@currentbiology.bsky.social

21.04.2025 15:58 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

MorphoGraphX 2.0.2 is now available:
morphographx.org/software/

15.04.2025 07:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...

Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3

26.03.2025 14:22 — 👍 92    🔁 42    💬 4    📌 6

Interestingly, plant epidermal cells have a strikingly similar lobate shape, which provides structural rigidity. We teamed up with plant biologists R. Smith and M. Majda. In silico modeling showed that, similar to plants, the lobate shape of LECs helps prevent lumen collapse in lymphatic capillaries

20.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

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20.03.2025 09:25 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Dynamic cytoskeletal regulation of cell shape supports resilience of lymphatic endothelium - Nature Dynamic cytoskeletal regulation of lymphatic endothelial cell shape, induced by isotropic stretch and crucial for dermal lymphatic capillary function, is identified and found to result from continuous...

Did you know that lymph vessels have puzzle cells?
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

19.03.2025 16:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy 500th (Google) citation for the #MorphoGraphX v1.0 paper (in just under 10 years)🥳🎂
www.morphographx.org @RichardSmithLab @RoutierLab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

08.02.2025 17:22 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

They blocked all outside aid, and shot people on the spot that tried to pick grain from the fields left over from the harvest. This statue of a young starving Ukrainian girl stands in front of the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv, where people bring food to put in her arms.

05.03.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In 1932-33 the Russians under the direction of Stalin starved 7 million Ukrainians to death in the Holodomor, because they would not bend the knee to Soviet rule. The Soviets took their harvest and sold it to fill Stalin's coffers leaving them to starve in the winter.

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Holodomor memorial in Kyiv.

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