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

Previous models of membrane structure have depicted adhesion as discrete membrane protein–cytoskeleton bonds that are discontinuously spaced on a scale larger than tethers and presumably have ...

Filopodia help cells move but also aid cancer spread. Scientists have revealed how fascin proteins build these structures, ...

Every cell in the body normally has its fixed place as part of a tissue structure. Except for a few cell types, such as blood ...

Myosin II plays the most important role in cellular force generation. Myosin II molecules self-assemble into filaments with different structures depending on myosin II isoforms and other conditions ...

MHH research team disables tumour cells with synthetic Adhibin and prevents migration and attachment to other cells ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several faculty at the University of California, Davis, are among the recipients of presidential awards for excellence in STEM mentoring and research announced by the White House Jan. 13 and 14. The ...

Integrins have to cooperate with proteins in the cell to be able to also connect to the intracellular support system, the cytoskeleton. One of these proteins is paxillin. Since paxillin is present ...

Interactions between microtubules and regulatory proteins could hold the answer ... “and that’s controlled by the cytoskeleton.” ...