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Active probing of the mechanical properties of biological and synthetic vesicles.

M. Piontek,R. B. Lira,W. Roos

2019 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2019.129486
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TLDR

The importance of mechanobiology for studies of vesicles and membranes is discussed, as well as the different available techniques to probe their mechanical properties, which help gain deeper insight in the fundamental biological mechanisms involved in vesicle generation and cellular uptake.