epithelial mechanics fan club

epimechfc.bsky.social

20 October 2026 08:54

Yamamoto, T., Ishibashi, T., Mimori-Kiyosue, Y., Hiver, S., Tokushige, N., Tarama, M., Takeichi, M., & Shibata, T. (2025). Epithelial cell chirality emerges through the dynamic concentric pattern of actomyosin cytoskeleton. eLife, 14, e102296. #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

epithelial mechanics fan club

epimechfc.bsky.social

19 October 2026 10:02

Hi! 👋 How do epithelial tissues feel fluid flow? 🌊 Kidney tubules, gut, airways and brain ventricles are lined by epithelia that are constantly sheared by flowing fluid. Let's dive in with few papers 🧵

The EMBO Journal

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16 October 2026 11:23

Epithelial wound healing has mainly been analyzed at the apical plane of the epithelium – @yanlanmao.bsky.social and colleagues now reveal a contractile system that connects the apical and basal cell surfaces at the wound edge for efficient wound closure link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yanlan Mao

yanlanmao.bsky.social

13 October 2026 10:25

Latest paper from our lab is now out in @embojournal.org! If you want to know how 3D cell shape changes promote #woundhealing, and see a 3D vertex model that allows #scutoids to form, read this article: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Many thanks and congrats to all co-authors!

Philip Ball

philipcball.bsky.social

13 October 2026 10:25

The chemistry Nobel this year got me remembering what it was like to receive groundbreaking research like Soai's key paper at Nature. Sometimes you knew it; sometimes (as in this case) you didn't. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...