by admin | Dec 17, 2025 | Educational Resources
Clusters We are incredibly excited to unveil a groundbreaking mirco testing advancements in the captivating realm of cell biomechanics – the cutting-edge concept of Integrated Elasticity (IE) regression. This revolutionary approach, meticulously developed by a...
by admin | Jun 21, 2024 | Educational Resources
Mechanical testing of biomaterials is different from testing metals, plastics, and other manufactured materials because biomaterials are often soft, fragile, heterogeneous, anisotropic, and highly sensitive to their environment. For students, researchers, and...
by Steve Dragos | Jul 17, 2023 | Educational Resources
Heart-on-a-chip has become one of those terms mentioned a lot, but it is worth slowing down and asking what it really means. At its core, it is an attempt to build a small in vitro cardiac system that behaves more like tissue and less like a simple cell culture...
by Steve Dragos | Jul 17, 2023 | Educational Resources
For a while, cultured meat work was mostly framed around one question: how do you grow enough cells? That is still a major challenge, but it is no longer the only one. Once people start thinking about scale and actual food products, the material carrying those cells...
by admin | Jul 17, 2023 | Educational Resources
Why regional differences matter in skeletal muscle mechanics Muscle is easy to describe in broad terms, but it does not behave like one perfectly consistent material from end to end. Two samples taken from different parts of the same muscle can respond differently...
by Steve Dragos | Apr 24, 2020 | Educational Resources
What does al dente actually mean in mechanical terms? People usually describe it as pasta that is firm to the bite, but that still leaves some room for interpretation. If you wanted to compare pasta texture more objectively, you could stop guessing and run a pasta...
