Eggs pop out of ovaries. But what propels them has been unknown. Now, researchers from the University of Connecticut explain in an article published in the September 18 issue of the Proceedings of the ...

Hydra are small, invertebrate, predatory animals that live in water. They're tubular, radially symmetric and up to 10 mm long ...

No biological system has been studied by more diverse approaches than the actin-based molecular motor myosin. Biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, classical genetics and molecular genetics have ...

An individual sarcomere contains many parallel actin (thin) and myosin (thick) filaments. The interaction of myosin and actin proteins is at the core of our current understanding of sarcomere ...

"Enhanced axonal transport has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and Alzheimer's disease," Cisterna and team ...

Your first instinct is to pull your head toward your shoulder, trying to lengthen your stiff, sore muscles. We’ve all been ...

The biological needs of plants and animals affect their cells' protein content, but the story goes deeper than that.

However, how mechanical signals regulate naïve pluripotency is not well understood. Mechanical signals are relayed in part through cellular adhesions that anchor cells to each other and to their ...

The award-winning image highlights the intricate details of two kinds of cells: a rounder, less specialized kind and longer, ...

Myosin filaments with myosin motors (green), Actin filaments (red) (Source video) During the contraction of a natural muscle, the heads of fibrous protein molecules, which may be called myosin ...

Our lab’s investigations of cardiac muscle contraction focus on the effects of cardiomyopathy-causing amino acid substitutions on myosin’s mechanical and ... We are also investigating actin filament ...