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The cleavage furrow cortex increases in stiffness above the global stiffness in mammalian cells as determined by atomic force microscopy [ 23 ] . This regional increase in stiffness is likely to occur in most or all metazoan and ameboid cells.
Context, I replied with all the adult stiffness I could muster, and that seemed to convince her.
Today, Frank Rich's op-ed column tells us what this all means: that "disingenuousness, not stiffness, is [Gore's] real character problem."
As the strain rate increases, the stiffness and peak failure loads of the ligament and bone both increase [ 1 3 16 ] . Fig.
By considering the stiffness of a D. discoideum cell [ 9 10 ] , we estimate the minimal required force to cleave a cell as a function of the cell's geometry.