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Sara Wickström awarded the Körber Prize 2026
https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/koerber-european-science-prize/all-prizewinners/2026-sara-wickstroem/

Finnish physician and cell biologist Sara Wickström has been awarded the €1 million Körber European Science Prize for discovering how cells sense the physical world around them. Her research showed that cells can “feel” forces such as pressure and stretching and relay these signals all the way to their DNA. In doing so, physical forces can switch genes on or off, helping determine how cells develop and how tissues heal after injury. The discovery opened a new field of research and could eventually lead to new ways of treating cancer, organ fibrosis and other age-related diseases.

The article explaining it "The hidden senses of cells"
https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/koerber-european-science-prize/all-prizewinners/2026-sara-wickstroem/#s54793

#mechanobiology #cellbiology #biology #medicine

Sara Wickström: The hidden senses of cells

Finnish physician and cell biologist Sara Wickström has been awarded the €1 million Körber European Science Prize for discovering how cells sense the physical world around them.

Körber-Stiftung

Scientific Frontline Jun 14

A novel bioelectronic platform utilizes the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS to dynamically modulate material stiffness through the application of electrical voltage. This allows researchers to subject cells to varying mechanical environments in real time.
#Mechanobiology #BiomedicalEngineering #MaterialsScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/bio06142601.html

Dynamic Mechanobiology Platform

Discover a bioelectronic PEDOT:PSS platform that dynamically changes stiffness via electrical voltage to study fibrosis and cancer cells.

Douglas J Chapman Jun 13

Legacy biology treats AlphaFold as a static map. We deploy it as a kinetic targeting system.

By classifying pathology as a Phase-State Delta (pliable vs. rigid), this blueprint integrates open-source geometric variables with wave mechanics. We mechanically target, entrain, and lyse pathological structures with zero chemical exhaust.

The Phase-State Delta:

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/HVYDN

@biology @physics #AlphaFold #Bioinformatics #StructuralBiology #Mechanobiology #ComputationalBiology

OSF

mechanochemistry Apr 29

BMS Seminar:

Kristian Franze (PDN, Cambridge & MPZPM, Erlangen)

The chemo-mechanical regulation of brain development

TODAY! 1315 in MTC LT Gibbet Hill

#DevBio #mechanobiology

Scientific Frontline Apr 27

Researchers have developed a novel mathematical model that treats biological tissue as a fluid composed of elongated, aligned particles to explain how surrounding cellular forces influence the speed and shape of wound closure. The model demonstrates that the structural orientation of cells around a wound actively dictates healing dynamics.
#TheoreticalPhysics #AppliedMathematics #Biomechanics #Mechanobiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/phy04272601.html

New mathematical model could explain why some wounds heal faster than others

Understanding how wounds heal after injury could be a step closer thanks to a new mathematical model

Scientific Frontline Mar 26

Mechanobiology is an interdisciplinary field of science that investigates how physical forces and alterations in the mechanical properties of cells and tissues influence cellular behavior, development, physiology, and disease.
#Mechanobiology #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/cat03262601.html

Mechanobiology: In-Depth Description

Mechanobiology sits at the intersection of biology, physics, and bioengineering.

Scientific Frontline Mar 26

As human cells age, the packaged form of DNA within the cell nucleus, known as chromatin, undergoes structural degradation and physically opens up. This alteration causes older cells to respond weakly or incorrectly to external mechanical and biochemical stimuli, leading to impaired cellular function.
#MolecularBiology #CellBiology #Mechanobiology #Biogerontology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/mbio03262601.html

Why cells respond “incorrectly” in old age

Some of the signs of ageing in human cells originate in the cell nucleus, because the packaged form of DNA changes with age.

Scientific Frontline Mar 23

The diversity of forms across #marine species is fundamentally driven by the physical properties of tissues, such as their capacity to contract, stretch, and resist deformation, which act in tandem with genetic factors to dictate an organism's final morphology.
#Mechanobiology #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Genetics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/bio03232601.html

Mechanical forces drive the diversity of life

Why do animals display such a wide range of shapes, even within the same group?

MPI for the Science of Light Feb 23

Meet Dr. Stephanie Möllmert – Curiosity as a common thread

She leads the #research group “Reproductive #Mechanobiology” at MPZPM & aims to connect fundamental #biophysics with questions that matter for women’s health.

Stephanie developed a passion for STEM early on. Biophysics became the answer – physical concepts & precise measurement methods applied to living systems. For her, this is defined by openness, questioning her own assumptions & collaborative thinking.

👉 https://mpzpm.mpg.de/research/stephanie-moellmert

𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Feb 19

🧠 A novel interaction between mechanics and signals that challenges orthodox assumptions, a qualitative structural insight rather than a incremental finding

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-a-hidden-mechanism-that-controls-the-brains-chemical-signals/ #Mechanobiology