Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to specialized structures called junctions. They ensure cell cohesion and regulate ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on one of the most intricate construction projects in biology: how cells build and coordinate the internal scaffolding needed to create a healthy egg. The ...

Researchers have visualized at the molecular level how formins bind to the ends of actin filaments. This allowed them to uncover how formins mediate the addition of new actin molecules to a growing ...

The dynamic processes that occur during the growth of actin, via polymerization, and the breakdown of actin both play significant roles in cellular mechanisms like migration and adhesion. Due to the ...

A tiny chemical modification on one of the most abundant and important proteins in cells, actin, has long been somewhat mysterious, its function not fully understood, but scientists have now taken a ...

Biophysicists unraveled a mystery of how muscles form at the molecular level and how they maintain their function. Nature Communications published the discovery, which may help in the design of ...

Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to be closed or chase down bacteria in the bloodstream. This mobility is ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energid today released version 5.5 of the Actin ® software development kit (SDK), an even more powerful and easier-to-use version of the industry’s only real-time ...

Energid released the newest version of its Actin software development kit (SDK), a real-time adaptive robotic motion control and path planning toolkit. Version 5.5 introduces new features for improved ...