I am delighted to share our new preprint in which we reveal the crucial role for mechanical forces in myoblast fusion. Great work from Yoann, Sushil and Aleksandra and great collaboration with Christophe Marcelle and Amin Doostmohammadi!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Same here, it would be great to be part of it if possible. Thanks

Moi moi stp!

Introducing "3D Micropatterned Traction Force Microscopy", our new joint work with Pere Roca-Cusach's lab, led by amazing Laura Faure and Manu Gómez. Hope you find it useful!👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

2nd edition of the EMBO Workshop on Dev timing & evolution will take place in Paris.

6-9 May 2025. Save the date!!!

coming-soon.embo.org/w25-105

Dear @soren-lorenson.bsky.social

Creators of Foldscope here. Absolutely love the idea of a “little free science lab”.. I will prototype it in my neighborhood and report back. Let’s see what new materials people add to same. Reminds me of “hole in the wall” (old documentary reference here)..

Cool, cause I've missed them entirely....

We are here. It will grow. It's up to us.

It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder by Glen O’Hara

voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/i...

Get the dimensionless numbers right !
Interesting perspective on such important numbers...

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"La structure d'une chose n'est nullement une chose que nous puissions 'inventer'. Nous pouvons seulement la mettre à jour patiemment, humblement en faire connaissance, la 'découvrir'.
A. Grothendieck

The authors wrote a summary on X if you are interested: twitter.com/MorphoLab_AS...

Thanks for sharing! Our son has this and I didn't know about this paper...

Great work by the team of Amy Shyer and Alan Rodrigues: FGF and BMP modify local mechanical tissue properties, at the origin of organ morphogenesis (BMP is generally fluidifying and FGF stiffening).
Tissue model: avian skin

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spatial patterning of energy metabolism during tissue morphogenesis by Bezia Lemma and the excellent Celeste Nelson from Princeton University.

Very interesting perspective paper on the spatial variations of energy consumption during tissue morphogenesis.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37696131/

Our last preprint is online at biorXiv. I have written a short "tweetorial" about it as a teaser, hoping it will make you want to read it (and comment it).
Have a look there (I'm sorry I did not post it entirely here):

x.com/CuriousMat_m...

Our new preprint is now live at biorXiv! So proud and honored to share the authorship with PhD students Ana Ximena Monroy-Romero and Brenda Nieto-Rivera, as well as postdoc researcher Wenjin Xiao. This is the first submission of our new team. Summary coming soon here. We hope you enjoy this work !

Thanks. It's my colleague's M.A. Fardin who speaks in the video. Check the other videos of the series. And there are plenty more to come. Stay tuned!

Have you ever asked yourselves what would happen if instead of using our usual standard units (meter, second, kilogram), rather arbitrary we could use OBJECTIVE units related to the physical event you describe?
Episode 8 of our series on Mechanics is just out: "The right angle" !

t.co/H5GSMQscaO