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A new optical approach reveals dynamics of ground reaction forces in Drosophila larvae and opens new avenues for studying the biomechanics of movement in small animals.

Achieving gender parity among U.S. tenured and tenure-track faculty will require changes to hiring, which has substantially greater impacts on faculty gender representation than gendered differences in attrition rates.

Actin-independent water influx complements actin-driven cytoskeletal forces to potentiate chemoattractant-induced migration in primary human neutrophils.

An influx of water molecules can help immune cells called neutrophils to move to where they are needed in the body.

Computational and theoretical biomechanical analysis reveals how actomyosin filaments and axial muscles conjugate their activity to realize a fourfold elongation during C. elegans embryogenesis, 4 hr just before hatching.

Agent-based modeling of space-dependent diffusivity inside cells reveals potential effects on biomolecule concentration and mesoscale dynamics.

The self-buckling behavior of filamentous cyanobacteria allowed a quantification of their propulsion forces, indicating that adhesion plays an important role in gliding motility.

Direct measurements of trafficking kinetics between organelles of the secretory pathway suggest that lipid-driven membrane domains laterally sort proteins during membrane traffic.