Research Team: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Research Team: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Researchers, including, from left, Ning Wang, a professor of mechanical science and engineering; postdoctoral fellow Jian Sun; and doctoral student Erfan Mohagheghian discovered that mechanical forces on cells can boost gene expression in the nucleus.

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