by Nicolas Minc | Jun 28, 2025
A large oil droplets filled with magnetic particles is moved by a magnet tip to generate calibrated stress in the cytoplasm, allowing to generate fluid flows. Bottom left: Fluid flow maps during pulling and relaxation. Bottom Right: Finite element simulation of the...
by Nicolas Minc | Jun 28, 2025
Magnetic beads that recruit dynein motors are assembled into a cortical domain to decenter nuclei and spindles and drive an asymmetric ell division (Credit: Jeremy Sallé)”...
by Nicolas Minc | Jun 24, 2025
Magnetic beads attached to centrosomes allow to apply torques and rotate spindles in a living sea urchin embryo (Credit: Jing Xie)...
by Nicolas Minc | Jul 6, 2016
A single fission yeast grows and deform a microwells fabricated in soft PDMS. This deformation allows to compute the force of single growing cells. (Credit: Nicolas Minc)...
by Nicolas Minc | Jul 6, 2016
Early embryos which go through multiple rounds of divisions (Credit: Anaëlle Pierre)...