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In a Chemical Library, Yale Researchers Finds Keys to Cell Movement

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rummaging through a biotechnology company’s chemical closet, Yale University researchers found two molecules that will allow scientists to better study how cells move.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Cells on the move

Cells on the move reach forward with lamellipodia and filopodia, cytoplasmic sheets and rods supported by branched networks or tight bundles of actin filaments. Cells without functional lamellipodia are still ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oocytes: Going with the flow

Most cells rely on structural tethers to position chromosomes in preparation for cell division. Not so oocytes. Instead, a powerful intracellular stream pushes chromosomes far-off the center in preparation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Salmonella utilize multiple modes of infection

Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have discovered a new, hitherto unknown mechanism of Salmonella invasion into gut cells: In this entry mode, the bacteria exploit the mu ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fate in fly sensory organ precursor cells could explain human immune disorder

(June 21, 2009) - Notch signaling helps determine the fate of a number of different cell types in a variety of organisms, including humans. In an article that appears in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers at Bay ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Understanding the migration of cancer cells

[B]Activity of regulatory proteins for the growth of filopodia and lamelopodia clarified[/B] Lamellipodia are veil-shaped protrusions of the plasma membrane, that can turn into upward-curled ruffles if they fail to adhere to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Insights into cell movement likely to aid immune study, cancer research

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have used yeast cells to better understand a collection of proteins associated with the formation of actin networks, which are essential to cell movement.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How actin networks are actin'

Dynamic networks of growing actin filaments are critical for many cellular processes, including cell migration, intracellular transport, and the recovery of proteins from the cell surface. In this week’s issue of the open-access ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 02, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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