Scientists have uncovered new details about cellular filaments that play a critical role in wound healing, according to a ...

Physicists from the Universities of Bayreuth and Grenoble have discovered a new mechanism of cell mobility. Their findings ...

The concept of constructing a self-supporting structure made of rods—without the use of nails, ropes, or glue—dates back to ...

Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer, is utilized to make a wide range of products like clothes and paper. Also, it helps ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells, which form a barrier that defends the body from the outside environment. This barrier function relies on specialized structures called ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists has captured the first live images. In a groundbreaking study, researchers ...

The laboratory of Sandra Citi, Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the UNIGE ... forming a network of filaments that is stronger and stiffer than that ...

While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental biology studies suggest ... composed of a single tubular filament, emerged around 200 million ...

This research, published in the journal PLOS Biology, provides new insights into ... These primitive structures, composed of a single tubular filament, emerged around 200 million years ago in ...

A research group led by Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Principal Investigator at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), developed a machine-learning algorithm to study the behavior of proteins within ...

was elected a Fellow of AAAS “for distinguished contributions to the field of cell biology, particularly for using red blood cells to determine the molecular mechanisms of actin filament length ...