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Pascal SILBERZAN
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The highly specific rheological properties of living cells, largely due to their intrinsic activity, condition many in vivo behaviors, from response to mechanical stimulation to force generation.
Specially developed tools and physical models now make it possible to probe these properties under different conditions, at different timescales and sizes, and to better correlate mechanical properties and biochemical activity.
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