Filopodia help cells move but also aid cancer spread. Scientists have revealed how fascin proteins build these structures, ...

Myosin II plays the most important role in cellular force generation. Myosin II molecules self-assemble into filaments with different structures depending on myosin II isoforms and other conditions ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in all eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be responsible for protein trafficking and secretion. In ...

Actin serves many functions: it provides cells with an overall shape ... "A fascin protein can accommodate all kinds of imperfections. It acts like a molecular hinge that can hold a number of ...

clearly distinguishing intricate cellular structures such as nuclei and filamentous actin, and the Virtual Staining phase produces virtually stained images without fluorescent dyes, eliminating ...

Efficient cell migration is driven by a process known as actin polymerization in which the building blocks of the polymer actin join together to form filaments. Now, a team led by Li-Kun Phng of ...

Rafael Rodríguez believes that "this molecule could become a drug to treat the symptoms of dementia, at least during the initial stages of the disease, because we have already seen that the body ...

A new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and the Boyce Thompson Institute reveals that the body produces a molecule, BA-MCY, which counteracts gut microbes’ signals to regulate bile acid production, ...

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c07282. Simulation movie of FUS droplet wetting an actin filament ...