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Mechanical Behaviors of Single Cells: Studies of how cells sense mechanical forces or deformations, and transduce them into biological responses. Studies of single cell behavior, including viscoelastic properties, cell growth, spreading, rounding, crawling, cell adhesion, cell cytoskeleton dynamics, cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions.

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