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How platelets pull the strings

No matter if it is a nosebleed, a scratch, or a cut – we regularly rely on our body’s innate ability to stop the loss of blood from injured blood vessels. This task is mainly done by little cells in our blood stream called "platelets”.... click to read more

Ingmar Schoen | Research Group Leader at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Sebastian Lickert | Research group leader at ETH Zurich

Viola Vogel | Research Group Leader at ETH Zurich

super-resolution microscopy

Mechanobiology

Platelets

Wound healing

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Mar 28, 2023

Forced to react: 3D printing can stretch a single cell

A cell is a tiny compartment, the most fundamental architectural unit of life. Like in the context of a whole body, every cell is highly interactive with its surroundings. As a result, cells gather and form functional communities such as tissues and organs. In those communities,... click to read more

Marc Hippler | PhD Student at Zoological Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Kai Weißenbruch | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Zoological Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; Institute of Functional Interfaces, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Martin Bastmeyer | Professor at Zoological Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

3D printing

smart materials

Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels

Mechanobiology

Mechanotransduction

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Apr 16, 2021