A team of researchers has discovered that terahertz (THz) wave irradiation activates the filamentation of actin protein. Drs. Shota Yamazaki and Masahiko Harata (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University); ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2018
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Elementary cytoskeleton protein is different in parasites and represents a starting point for a possible new therapy against malaria infections. Researchers from the Heidelberg University Hospital, the Centre for Molecular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2018
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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich physicists investigating spontaneous pattern formation in a model system that includes motile proteins have discovered hitherto unobserved phenomena. Their findings afford new insights ...
General Physics
Jun 29, 2018
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Research conducted in the University of Helsinki may help in developing specific inhibitors that would slow down actin-dependent movement of cancer cells.
Cell & Microbiology
May 17, 2018
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Bacterial toxins can wreak mass havoc within cells by shutting down multiple essential functions at once, a new study has found.
Cell & Microbiology
May 3, 2018
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Scientists have discovered a process during mammalian embryonic development that is critical for early embryos to develop into healthy blastocysts.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2018
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Biochemists have made a discovery that sheds light on the molecular machinery that allows some cells, such as immune cells or even malignant cancer cells in humans, to wiggle their way through tissues like organs, skin or ...
Biochemistry
Mar 5, 2018
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Researchers have identified a fused gene in moss that provides insight into how cells build their external walls. The same discovery raises questions about the one-of-a-kind gene that features two distinct proteins that participate ...
Biotechnology
Feb 12, 2018
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Humans possess six forms of the protein actin, which perform essential functions in the body. Two in particular, β-actin and γ-actin, are nearly identical, only differing by four amino acids. Yet these near-twin proteins ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 3, 2018
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Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore, report that endocytosis, which was previously thought to be a random process, actually occurs in a coordinated manner ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 13, 2017
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