Imagine a dark room packed full of furniture. Now imagine moving through it to get to the other side, using only your toe tips for guidance. While it may seem challenging (or unspeakably tedious) to us, this is a task that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 13, 2023
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Bacteria live in nearly every habitat on Earth including within soil, water, acidic hot springs and even within our own guts.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 22, 2023
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A new way to see details smaller than half the wavelength of light has revealed how nanoscale scaffolding inside cells bridges to the macroscale during cell division. Unlike earlier superresolution techniques, the one developed ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 20, 2023
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A single human cell teems with as many 100,000 different proteins. Actin is one of the most abundant and essential of them all. This protein forms into filaments that help make up the skeleton of cells, giving them shape. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2023
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Actin filaments—protein structures critical to living movement from single cells to animals—have long been known to have polarity associated with their physical characteristics, with growing "barbed" and shrinking "pointed" ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2023
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A team of researchers has developed a new method to screen FDA-approved drugs to determine if they could be repurposed or improved to help patients with a rare, debilitating disease of the nervous system.
Biochemistry
Feb 16, 2023
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Bacterial pathogens like Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria and many others exploit the protein skeleton of the cells they infect in order to spread throughout the host. However, how is this so-called cytoskeleton of host cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2022
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Toxins released by a type of bacteria that cause diarrheal disease hijack cell processes and force important proteins to assemble into "roads to nowhere," redirecting the proteins away from other jobs that are key to proper ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 18, 2022
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In a new study, University of Maryland researchers have demystified the process by which cells receive their shape—and it all starts with a protein called actin.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 4, 2022
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Actin filaments are protein fibers that make up the internal skeleton of the cell. As active elements of our cells, actin filaments support the cell's fusion, movement and are involved in many other cellular processes. Importantly, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2022
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