Copper is essential for life. Our cells need the metal to make energy and stay healthy, but if it is in the wrong place or ...

Cells can spontaneously change shape even without external signals, but the underlying mechanisms behind this form of ...

Eukaryotic cells—that is, cells with a nucleus—possess an astounding ability to radically change their shape and their cytoskeleton, allowing them to migrate through tiny pores and constrictions even ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center led a study to develop a computational method that reveals how immune cells ...

Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.

The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development—but because of resistance, or viscosity, those cells can't just neatly glide past each ...

Migrating cells must determine where to form a front end and a back end. A gradient in contact sites between the cell membrane and an organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is generated by a ...

Immune responses rely on the efficient movement of immune cells within the complex and geometrically unpredictable three-dimensional tissues that make up our bodies. Research by the Sixt group at the ...

Migration is a fundamental cellular process that regulates a wide variety of biological processes, including immune surveillance and responses 1,2, embryonic development 3,4,5 and wound healing ...

How do cells move from A to B through our body to build functional tissues? And how is this process regulated? The answers to these questions are essential – for example, for our understanding of how ...

The cytoskeleton gives cells their shape and helps them move. Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig Maximilian University now show that, in neural stem cells, proteins of the cytoskeleton are ...

The gastrointestinal tract is the biggest immune organ in mammals. The gut extends its influence all over the body through various links like the gut-liver axis, the gut-lung axis, and the gut-brain ...