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 ...

Mitosis orchestrates eukaryotic cell division, maintaining genetic fidelity and playing a key role in development, tissue homeostasis, and cancer progression.

The near ubiquity of incomplete cytokinesis in animal germ lines suggests ... and seemingly bisecting the stable ring that connected the mother cell to the cytophore (the equivalent structure to the ...

When the cells enter cytokinesis and secretion resumes ... Previous models of membrane structure have depicted adhesion as discrete membrane protein–cytoskeleton bonds that are discontinuously ...

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology (N.T.L., N.U.N.N., W.M.E., C.-C.H., I.M.-M., F.X., S.R.A., N.V., N.B., L.E.-F., Q.M.O., A.C.C., M.S.A., S.L ...

A new version of Cellpose —the popular tool that maps the boundaries of diverse cells in microscopy images —now works on less-than-perfect pictures that are noisy, blurry, or undersampled.

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural ...

Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe, gives scientists an unprecedented look at the extracellular matrix -- the collection of organized molecular structures that fills the spaces between cells in our ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...