Mechanical memory: The clever strategy cells use to move through narrow environments

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In wound healing, immune response, and cancer metastasis, cells migrate through the body—often squeezing through narrow, confined spaces. Together with experimental collaborators, Professor David Bruckner at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has discovered that cells possess a kind of memory: they can "remember" how they previously navigated such constrictions. This allows them to move more quickly and efficiently through complex tissues.