Researchers are learning more about how the fungus coexists with the morning glory, and their findings are a real trip.

Intermediate filaments (IFs) are assembled from fibrous ... Although 'plastic dish' cell biology has elucidated many interesting features of desmin IFs, a more profound understanding has been ...

Remarkable progress has been made in understanding how filament systems function, although in most cases, the molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Structural biology, cryo-electron tomography of ...

As the group reports in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, they applied and then extended a model of active filaments that includes these frictional hydrodynamic interactions ...

When active filaments are exposed to localized illumination ... "The model does not include any specific details regarding the biology of the bacteria," says Leila Abbaspour, joint first author ...

Cells exist in three dimensions, and they have a dynamic skeleton and filaments that help them maintain and stabilize their form and structure. The molecules that create the cellular cytoskeleton, ...

More information: Benjamin Falcon et al. Structures of filaments from Pick's disease reveal a novel tau protein fold, Nature (2018).DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0454-y Abstract The ordered assembly of ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers from Queen Mary University of London ...

Tau filaments isolated from an Alzheimer’s brain are the latest, high-profile exploit of cryo-electron microscopy. Crafting a technique that has become his claim to fame, Sjors Scheres of the MRC ...

Led by Karen Duff at University College London and Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K., the scientists also reported that these ...

As the group reports in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, they applied and then extended a model of active filaments that includes these frictional hydrodynamic interactions ...

As the group reports in The Journal of Chemical Physics ("Colloidal transport by active filaments"), they applied and then extended a model of active filaments that includes these frictional ...