Coronavirus: how this virus can affect our largest organ, the skin?
There's no need here to list the usual clinical manifestations of COVID-19 infection. They are many and sadly may lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome and death. Let's focus on a special topic : our skin. The skin symptoms have been poorly described...
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17 December 2020
Highlighting blue light effects in skin using AFM: the replay of our webinar!
Watch the full replay of our webinar "Blue Light Exposure - Highlighting effects in skin using AFM", presented by Jean-André Lapart, our Lab Manager.
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13 October 2020
AFM: all-in-one technology fitting regulatory requirements for cosmetic efficacy testing
Wrinkles, oily skin, under-eye bags, acne/breakouts, dry skin… There’s a clear demand for products able to prove efficacy against a wide variety of consumer concerns. The protection of consumers from misleading claims on efficacy and other characteristics of cosmetics are...
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3 September 2020
Electronic force microscopy and spectroscopy: the replay of our webinar!
Watch the full replay of our webinar "Electronic Force Microscopy and spectroscopy - New perspectives for cell and tissue analysis", presented by Julien Chlasta.
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13 July 2020
Beyond BioMechanics, there is mechanotransduction
All living cells depend on their mechanical surroundings. Their structure and function are directly linked to this mechanical stimulus (shear stress, gravity). Cells sense these physical forces by their integrin-based adhesion (“outside-in” and “inside-out”) and translate...
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10 June 2020
Join AFM to fluorescence microscopy: the replay of our webinar!
Watch the full replay of our very first webinar "Join AFM to fluorescence microscopy - A new perspective for your research", presented by Gael Runel.
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3 June 2020
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Biomechanics uses mechanical and physics principles to understand biological systems as structure of human cells, tissues or organs. Mechanobiology studies the way how physical forces in cell or tissue can contribute to develop changes or even diseases...
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1 February 2020
A brief manual of biomechanics (Part 1)
Stress, strain, relaxation, elastic modulus, viscoelasticity, dissipation…The feeling of hearing “blah blah blah” when you hear about biomechanics? No stress! We are decoding for you the physics terms important to the understanding of the properties of biological...
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4 October 2018