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Confocal image of a stretched Xenopus laevis animal cap epithelium expressing GFP-alpha-tubulin (green) and cherry-histone2B (magenta). In this issue, Sarah Woolner and colleagues describe a method to investigate how mechanical forces influence cellular behavior in Xenopus animal cap tissue (doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot105551). Image courtesy of Sarah Woolner