A team of scientists from the University of Cologne's Institute of Biochemistry has made a decisive discovery about the molecular basis of synapse formation in the central nervous system. They studied ...

Establishment and maintenance of appropriate cell size is a prerequisite for cells to function efficiently. Here, Kiriakopulos et al. reveal that the lncRNA CISTR-ACT maintains cell size across cell ...

The symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are different, but they have one feature in common: the presence of ...

The cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells contains an elaborate filamentous protein meshwork — the cytoskeleton — which comprises three distinct but integrated fibrous polymers: filamentous actin (F-actin; ...

Living cells are constantly exposed to a wide variety of mechanical stresses: heart and lungs must withstand expansion and contraction; our skin must be resistant to tearing whilst retaining ...

Just as the skeleton and muscles move the human body and hold its shape, the cells of the body are stabilized and moved by a cellular skeleton. This cellular skeleton is a dynamic structure, ...

How did life leap from simple microbial cells to the complex, structured cells that make up animals, plants, and fungi? A new study in The EMBO Journal by researchers at the Indian Institute of ...