Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to ...

Most cell structures are not visible to the naked eye without using stains for visualization. The stains used in these images highlight how cell biologists use tricks to “see the invisible.” Invite ...

Source: NEMO Kennislink / Michelle Wijma Officially, Jan van Hest carries the title of professor of bio-organic chemistry. Unofficially ...

Researchers discover that actin acts in the cell nucleus and is partly responsible for the expression of male sexual characteristics. Steroid hormones, to which belong sex hormones like estrogen or ...

In the 1950s, advances in microscopy techniques allowed scientists to visualize synaptic communication between two brain cells for the first time. 1,2 However, many details beyond the general synapse ...

A KAIST research team has discovered that the Huntington protein originally plays a critical role in forming the neuronal cytoskeleton under normal conditions. The findings were published in the ...

Huntington's disease is a rare genetic disorder and a representative neurodegenerative disease, characterized by loss of ...

From reptiles and Tasmanian devils to humans, one researcher zooms in on unseen features of the brain and liver cells, like ...

Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic disorder and a representative neurodegenerative disease, characterized by loss of ...