This is the editorial for the specail issue on Modeling and Simulation in Tissue Biomechanics published in Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering
KeywordsHistory of BiomechanicsSoft Tissue BiomechanicsMultiscale Homogenization ApproachesCollagen Bio-Structures
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