Using engineering to understand biological processes

All

I'd like to share the following paper with you. I think its an interesting example of where
engineering knowledge can be used to help understand biological processes. We used microscope work and finite element analysis to test a hypothesis as to how a biological structure, crimp, forms in tendons. We'd like to continue this work, so all comments welcome.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/mw16397536575l0h/

Herchenhan A., Kalson N.S., Holmes D.F., Hill P., Kadler K.E. and Margetts L., "Tenocyte contraction induces crimp formation in tendon-like tissue", Biomechanics and Modelling in Mechanobiology, Springer.

Best regards

Lee