{"id":330996,"date":"2017-06-15T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=dead82b8e19bbd55a2abe853c1f71a44"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:10:01","slug":"biomedical-engineering-researchers-findings-and-methodology-are-game-changers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=330996","title":{"rendered":"Biomedical engineering researchers&#8217; findings and methodology are game-changers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study by three researchers in VCU&#8217;s Department of Biomedical Engineering enhances understanding of a cell&#8217;s response to mechanical cues from its surrounding environment, a key regulator of cell function. &#8220;Mechanotransduction Dynamics at the Cell-Matrix Interface&#8221; by assistant professor Seth Weinberg, Ph.D., student Devin Mair (pictured above) and associate professor Christopher Lemmon, Ph.D., employs a computational-experimental methodology with implications for further insights into mechanical interactions between cells. The study, which is part of a project funded by a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, appears in the May 2017 issue of Biophysical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by three researchers in VCU&#8217;s Department of Biomedical Engineering enhances understanding of a cell&#8217;s response to mechanical cues from its surrounding environment, a key regulator of cell function. &#8220;Mechanotransduction Dynamics at the Cell-Matr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330997,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330996\/revisions\/330997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}