Caltech researchers demonstrated a new method to use light to control active matter—a kind of material made up of individual ...

The cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells is made of filamentous proteins, and it provides mechanical support to the cell and its cytoplasmic constituents. All cytoskeletons consist of three major ...

Alushin. "Going forward, hopefully we've made it easier to study these protein networks, where function emerges at the level of thousands of molecules." Alushin's lab specializes in understanding the ...

Nathan Blow looks at some of the technologies used by cell biologists to unlock the mysteries of cell migration. As people move from place to place to carry out daily activities, within their ...

Unlike a human skeleton, though, the cytoskeleton in cells doesn't contain bones. Instead, it's made up of microtubules (long polymer tubes of the tubulin protein) and microfilaments made from the ...

In the closed state, cells do not generate filopodia as shown in the right bottom image (green=IRSp53, red=cdc42, and blue=actin, the most abundant protein in the cytoskeleton). The arrow between ...

This table lists the main function, subclasses, main mediator cells and probable pathways and states the effect on regeneration, as promoting (+) or inhibiting (-). BDNF: Brain-derived ...

She has conducted research in various disciplines including physiology of mycorrhizal fungi, DNA fingerprinting of turf grass, gene expression of cytoskeleton proteins, linkage mapping of adult-onset ...