Preface: molecular, cellular, and tissue mechanobiology

• Published in: Acta mechanica Sinica Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 219 - 221
• Main Authors: Feng, Xi-Qiao, Lee, Peter Vee Sin, Lim, Chwee Teck
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 01.04.2017; Springer Nature B.V; Institute of Biomechanics and Medical Engineering, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China%Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia%Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
• Edition: English ed.
• Subjects: Classical and Continuum Physics; Computational Intelligence; Engineering; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; molecular;cellular;mechanobiology; Preface; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• ISSN: 0567-7718; 1614-3116
• DOI: 10.1007/s10409-017-0662-y

Mechanics plays a crucial role in a diversity of biological processes at different length (from molecules, cells, tissues,organs to organisms) and time scales. As a rapidly growing field across the interfaces of mechanics, biology, and medical engineering, mechanobiology aims to identify the mechanical and biological responses of cells and tissues of mechanical factors (e.g., stress, strain, and substrate stiffness) and their underlying mechanisms at different scales; to correlate the physiological and pathological growth, adaption, remodeling, and degradation of tissues and organs with their mechanical forces, properties, and environments;