Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how intercellular "glue" functions to enable ...

Epithelial cells defend human skin and mucous membranes. Specialized structures known as “junctions” enable this “barrier” tissue to carry out its role. They control interactions between cells and ...

Our skin and mucous membranes protect us like vigilant sentinels against the onslaught of harmful pathogens. This extraordinary defense owes its strength to epithelial cells—specialized tissues woven ...

The actin cytoskeleton provides force for dynamic cellular processes, such as motility, morphogenesis, cell division, endocytosis, and phagocytosis. The organization and dynamics of actin filaments ...

Cells can also send out packages called exosomes, lipid vesicles that bubble off from the cell membrane. But for about 20 ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Plots of polarization-dependent efficiency of excitation could then be made, alongside the detection of emitted fluorescence. In trials using first labeled cellulose and actin targets and then cells ...

postdoc Yee Han Tee had begun working with another sort of micropatterning technique to study how cells form an internal structure called the actin cytoskeleton, an important mediator of cell growth, ...

To further investigate the cell contribution to the ICM, the researchers labeled DNA and actin and, starting at the eight-cell stage, tracked cellular positions after division using live cell imaging.