"The complex recognizes the right vessel, the right place on the cell surface and the right time for the cargo to be delivered. It does that by talking to the membrane fusion protein." More ...

Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller ...

Filopodia help cells move but also aid cancer spread. Scientists have revealed how fascin proteins build these structures, ...

EPFL researchers have developed a computational method to explicitly consider the impact of water while designing membrane ...

Communication between oocytes and granulosa cells is essential for oocyte formation, dormancy, reawakening, and maturation.

A study in the journal Pharmaceuticals has uncovered how specific genetic mutations in α2δ-1 and α2δ-3 proteins linked to ...

Communication between oocytes and granulosa cells is essential for oocyte formation, dormancy, reawakening, and maturation. Researchers have demonstrated that a protein complex called the exocyst ...

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell.