Why Tissue Gets Stiffer When Compressed
In a study recently published in Nature, Drs. Paul Janmey and Vivek Shenoy, along with their graduate students Anne van Oosten and Xingyu Chen and collaborators, have answered the long-standing biomedical paradox of why tissues stiffen when compressed. Reported in The Medium, the researchers found that when tissue is compressed, the cells inside expand laterally, […]
