Biophysical Journal author George Lykotrafitis, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, discusses the image he created for the cover of the latest issue of BiophysJ. In our lab, we develop computational models and perform experiments at the cellular level to study quantitatively how diseases affect the chemomechanical properties and structure of human cells. Our main focus is sickle cell disease, a hereditary blood disorder caused by a one point ...