TEC21;Biomechanics

The Biomechanics platform is dedicated to the study of mechanical interactions in biological systems, from cell, to tissue. The objects of study relate to biophysical phenomena such as adhesion, migration, cell growth and morphology, particularly in relation to fluid dynamics.

The platform has a set of tools available for characterisation of cell and tissue properties, rheology and imaging.

Applications: health, biomedical diagnosis, therapeutic tools.

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Scientific domain

PE3: Condensed Matter Physics LS1: Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms Structures and Functions LS9: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering LS3: Cellular Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Keywords

Biomechanics

Home partner institution

(Grenoble INP - UGA) Grenoble Institute of Technology

Website

Technical staff available

Yes

Remote access details

Partly

Open to external users

Yes

Equipment

Tools for characterising forces at the microscopic scale, adhesion forces, visco-elasticity (AFM)
A 2D/3D micro-fabrication platform: preparation of circuits for fluidics and study of flows, fabrication of micro-structured substrates
Cell culture chambers: preparation of biological material under standard conditions
A set of imaging tools (confocal microscope and atomic force microscope – AFM): study of the deep 3D structures of living and mobile tissues or cells, surface topology
Tools and techniques of micro-rheometry of living organisms: study of the rheological properties of complex fluids (evolving biological fluids, suspensions of vesicles or micro-organisms)

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