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 ...

Just like your body has a skeleton, every cell in your body has a skeleton—a cytoskeleton to be precise. This provides cells with mechanical resilience, as well as assisting with cell division.

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 ...

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

a protein that cells use to build an intracellular cytoskeleton to aid cell motility, division, and other important processes. Intrigued, Tilney took on the project, and together the pair showed that ...

The research focuses on cells’ “feet,” which are small bundles of molecules that help cells move. Scientists are exploring ...

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

Cleaving hundreds of different kinds of proteins within a cell, these enzymes wreak havoc on the genome, attack structural proteins composing the cell’s organelles, and dismantle the cytoskeleton, ...

Mark Groudine Chair for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Service, Fred Hutch Mark Groudine Chair for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Service Fred Hutch Dr. Susan Parkhurst studies the ...

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 ...

Our ultimate goal is to define if manipulating the cytoskeleton of cancer cells will lead to improved efficacy of therapeutic approaches in patients with metastatic disease, with a special focus on ...