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During migration, cells interact with their environment by exerting mechanical forces on it. A combination of two techniques shows that they do so in all three dimensions by a push–pull mechanism.

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Figure 1: Mechanical forces involved in cell adhesion.

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  1. Pascal Hersen and Benoît Ladoux are at the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Diderot & CNRS UMR 7057, Paris 75013, France, and at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411.,

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Hersen, P., Ladoux, B. Push it, pull it. Nature 470, 340–341 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470340a

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