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

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

The findings, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, may improve some cancer treatments ... Alushin's lab specializes in understanding the cytoskeleton—the network of protein filaments, ...

Muscle sliding filaments. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9, s6–s7 (2008) doi:10.1038/nrm2581. Goody, R. S. The missing link in the muscle cross-bridge cycle. Nature Structural Molecular ...

Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an oestrogen independent manner.

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according to a ...

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 ...

Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology that discuss the three types of filament that constitute the cytoskeleton. The online-only Library contains cytoskeleton-related ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ...