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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An image more than three months in the making captured the precise moment brain tumor cells from mice interact, winning first ...

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

Buildup of a protein called filamentous actin, or F-actin, in the brain inhibits the removal of cellular wastes, including DNA, lipids, proteins and organelles. The resulting accumulation of waste ...

The work builds on groundbreaking discoveries related to the F-actin network that Fowler has made throughout her 40-year career. As a post-doctoral fellow Fowler was the first to discover myosin in ...

Maybe you are conscious about your thick thighs or eagerly want to get your back into better shape as soon as possible – ...

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

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 ...