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Overview of Maloney et al., "Influence of finite thickness and stiffness on cellular adhesion-induced deformation of compliant substrata," Phys Rev E, 2008. A video summary from the Laboratory for Material Chemomechanics and Van Vliet Group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://mit.edu/vvgroup). Personal website: http://john.maloney.org. (Music by Etherfysh, "Sanctuary," courtesy of Magnatune.) « Hide