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I want to thank M. Kräter, D. Soteriou, and M. Kubankova for the critical reading of the manuscript and B. Baum, C. Cannistraci, D. Di Carlo, E. Chilvers, E. Darling, D. Discher, B. Fabry, J. Goetz, P. Janmey, W. Lam, S. Manalis, D. Robinson, A. Rowat, U. Schwarz, A. Surcel, T. Sulcheck, K. Tanner, and V. Zaburdaev and all members of my group for important recent discussions. I also want to acknowledge the important work by many others in the cell mechanics community whose work I have failed to mention explicitly in this text.
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Guck, J. Some thoughts on the future of cell mechanics. Biophys Rev 11, 667–670 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-019-00597-0
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