Understanding biology’s software—the rules that enable great plasticity in how cell collectives generate reliable anatomies—is key to advancing tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

A new book explores the crosstalk between mind and body and how it helps humans navigate their worlds.

What do scientists know about this membraneless nuclear body discovered less than two decades ago?

Optimized tweezers enable precise 3-D manipulations of a cell’s organelles.

The physical principles that dictate the formation of these subcellular compartments are simple, but they dictate the organelles’ complex functions.

Acoustic forces can be used to differentiate adherent from non-adherent cells.

From making ribosomes to protecting the integrity of the genome, these membraneless compartments play important roles in the cell. Their behavior is rooted in basic physics.

Titin was discovered four decades ago, but some physiology textbooks fail to recognize the important role it plays in muscle contraction.

Adding or removing water changes how stem cells differentiate.

New tools for investigating how physical forces affect cells

Meet some of the people featured in the February 2017 issue of The Scientist.

The dissection of how cells sense and propagate physical forces is leading to exciting new tools and discoveries in mechanobiology and mechanomedicine.

Physical forces propagate from the outside of cells inward and vice versa.

Meet some of the people featured in the April 2016 issue of The Scientist.

A tumor’s physical environment fuels its growth and causes treatment resistance.

The causes and consequences of physical forces in the tumor microenvironment

Physical therapy and exercise are critical to the success of cell therapies approaching the clinic.

See the soldier whose recovery from a debilitating muscle injury was greatly aided by a cellular therapy plus physical therapy.

Dolphins prove that they rely on muscle power, rather than a trick of fluid dynamics, to race through water at high speeds.