Ron Kaback didn’t believe that electrochemical gradients could power the transport of sugars and amino acids across cell membranes—until he proved that they do. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

This cell transport mechanism is crucial to nerve cells, which have the unique property of sending out tendrils, called axons, up to several feet from the main cell body to innervate distant parts of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new mechanism for cell movement has been identified, challenging the belief that myosin is essential for mammalian cell mobility. This mechanism relies on the ...

Cell crowding causes high-grade breast cancer cells to become more invasive by activating a molecular switch that causes the cells to shrink and spread.

This takes place when molecules diffuse across the cell membrane by travelling through specific transport proteins. It occurs down a concentration gradient - molecules move from an area of high to ...

The Wingless (Wg) signaling pathway is known to be responsible for one of these constrictions, but until now the underlying ...

A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. WANG Likun from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has provided new insights into metabolic disease mechanisms and potential ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team found that BOR1 is expressed in the tapetal cells of young anthers in unopened buds ...