Cell Response to Extracellular Matrix Viscous Energy Dissipation Outweighs High-Rigidity Sensing

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Researchers exploited engineered stiff viscoelastic protein hydrogels to show that, contrary to current models of cell-ECM interaction, substrate viscous energy dissipation attenuated mechanosensing even when cells were exposed to higher effective rigidity.
[Science Advances]
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