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One Construct Our biological model: Sarah's engineered tendon constructs.

Image courtesy of Harish Narayan
Focal Adhesions Focal adhesions (stained red due to presence of the protein vinculin) at the end of actin fibers (green) in a cell

Image courtesy of Christoph Moehl
Myoglobin Myoglobin 3D structure

Image courtesy of Magnus Manske & S.E.V. Phillips
After-growth Growth of the solid collagenous phase in an engineered, in vitro tendon

Image courtesy of the Computational Physics Group at the University of Michigan
Bond Stretching Energy A force field is used to minimize the bond stretching energy of this ethane molecule.

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Epithelial Cells Stained cells in culture

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Growing Tumor A growing tumour constrained by hard tissue on the left

Image courtesy of the Computational Physics Group at the University of Michigan
Cells Stretching Cells stretching

Images courtesy of Simon Jungbauer and Ralf Kemkemer, Max Planck Institut fuer Metallforschung, Stuttgart