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Pulling it together in three dimensions

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The most abundant proteins in our cells are there to generate mechanical forces, and measurement of these forces has just become possible.

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Figure 1: Cell traction forces.

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  1. Xavier Trepat is at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia and at the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,

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  2. Ben Fabry is at the Department of Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.,

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  3. Jeffrey J. Fredberg is in the Program of Molecular and Integrative Pulmonary Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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