Traction force microscopy of engineered cardiac tissues

• Francesco Silvio Pasqualini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Silvio Pasqualini, Ashutosh Agarwal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Ashutosh Agarwal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Silvio Pasqualini, Ashutosh Agarwal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, Miami, FL, United States of America

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• Blakely Bussie O'Connor,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Qihan Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Sean P. Sheehy,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Kevin Kit Parker

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kkparker@seas.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5968-7535

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