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This paper investigates the effects of localized shear stress on epithelial cell behavior, a crucial aspect of understanding tissue mechanics. The study's significance lies in its mesoscopic approach, bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scale analyses. The findings highlight how mechanical perturbations can propagate through tissues, influencing cell dynamics and potentially impacting tissue function. The use of a novel mesoscopic probe to apply local shear is a key methodological advancement.
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Localized shear propagated way beyond immediate neighbors and suppressed cellular migratory dynamics in stiffer layers.

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This paper introduces EnFlow, a novel framework that combines flow matching with an energy model to efficiently generate low-energy conformer ensembles and identify ground-state conformations of molecules. The key innovation lies in the energy-guided sampling scheme, which leverages the learned energy function to steer the generation process towards lower-energy regions. This approach addresses the limitations of existing methods by improving conformational fidelity and enabling accurate ground-state identification, particularly in a few-step regime. The results on benchmark datasets demonstrate significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods.
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EnFlow simultaneously improves generation metrics with 1--2 ODE-steps and reduces ground-state prediction errors compared with state-of-the-art methods.