Microenvironmental stiffness enhances glioma cell proliferation by stimulating epidermal growth factor receptor signaling.

The aggressive and rapidly lethal brain tumor glioblastoma (GBM) is associated with profound tissue stiffening and genomic lesions in key members of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway.Previous studies from our laboratory have shown that increasing microenvironmental stiffness in culture can strongly enhance glioma cell behaviors re

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Self-propelled predator-prey of swarming Janus micromotors

Summary: It is a long-standing challenge to accomplish bionic microrobot that acts in a similar way of white blood cell, chasing bacteria in complex environment.Without an effective external control field, most swarming microrobots systems are usually unable to perform directional movement and redirect their motion to capture the target.Here we rep

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