The chirality of tissues and organs is essential for their proper function and development. Tissue-level chirality derives from the chirality of individual cells that comprise the tissue, and cellular ...

“The filaments, F-Actin and microtubules, are able to propagate electrical impulses inside neurons. This property is something that scientists generally haven’t considered.” The cell’s cytoskeleton, ...

Since the discovery of actin in relation to muscle function more than 80 years ago by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi in Szeged, Hungary, actin research has become extremely diverse and now extends to plants ...

The cytoskeleton provides most cells with their shape, structure, and internal organization. In turn, the cytoskeleton relies on a type of actin protein, called filamentous or F-actin.

“The actin cytoskeleton dictates the shape and polarity of a cell and is essential in numerous and diverse fundamental processes including cellular division, motility, phagocytosis, organelle ...

Actin cytoskeleton morphology is able to affect and reflect the cellular mechanical properties. However, due to the lack of efficient approaches to quantifying actin cytoskeleton and mechanical ...

A new clinical study of adults with moderate joint health issues demonstrated that a novel iminosugar-containing dietary supplement ingredient, marketed as Q-actin , improved joint function and ...

Cytoskeletons, made up of the protein actin, serve as structural support for cells but are also key in processes like the cell's ability to grow, divide and internalize key substances.

1 Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2 iHuman Institute, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, China Cell-to-cell communication in plants is mediated ...

From left: Uri Manor, PhD, Cara Schiavon, PhD, and Tong Zhang, PhD. [Salk Institute] “The actin cytoskeleton plays multiple critical roles in cells, from cell migration to organelle dynamics.