title: Spurred by resistance: mechanosensation in collective migration.
abstract: How cells orchestrate their behavior during collective migration is a long-standing question. Using magnetic tweezers to apply mechanical stimuli to Xenopus mesendoderm cells, Weber et al. (2012) now reveal, in this issue of Developmental Cell, a cadherin-mediated mechanosensitive response that promotes cell polarization and movement persistence during the collective mesendoderm migration in gastrulation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, A - 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Behrndt
authors.forename: Carl-Philipp
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Heisenberg