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

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 ...

However, most animal cells have complex morphologies because the membrane adheres strongly to the cytoskeleton. In animal cells, movement of membrane into an endocytic vesicle or lamellipodium ...

The forces at work Alushin’s lab specializes in understanding the cytoskeleton—the network of protein filaments, including actin, that form a cell’s infrastructure. Actin serves many ...

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

Alushin's lab specializes in understanding the cytoskeleton—the network of protein filaments, including actin, that form a cell's infrastructure. Actin serves many functions: it provides cells with an ...

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 ...

Two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members are being honored by the Academy of Science - St. Louis for their ...