Many enzymes that are active in the cytoplasm generate force, as is the case with molecular motors that transport cargo. Enzymes acting in concert can drive whole-cell processes such as migration. The ...

One of the most striking features of eukaryotic cells is their capacity to change shape in response to environmental or intrinsic cues driven primarily by their actomyosin cytoskeleton. During gross ...

In a study that may guide drug design, researchers find organelles encounter varying levels of resistance, depending on their size and speed, as they move through a cell's cytoplasm. Under a ...

Small protein molecules almost do not experience the cytoplasm viscosity while moving within the cell. Scientists have now shown that the effect can be described universally to include ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Zeins, the main storage proteins of maize that accumulate in the endoplasmic reticulum of the endosperm cells, are particularly interesting ...

The inside of a cell is packed with stuff; from big organelles to small molecules, the cytoplasm is the suspension which contains all those components. Researchers at MIT wanted to know more about how ...

Inching along, a DNA-preserving mechanism can ultimately defeat the transposon, a danger that jumps. This mechanism is part of a larger process through which tiny pieces of RNA protect reproductive ...

The March 2005 issue of Biology of Reproduction contains a report of some intriguing findings in cloned offspring created when nuclei from one genus of fish were transplanted to enucleated eggs of ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

Growth chamber experiments with sunflower in nutrient solution were performed to investigate the effect of phosphorus and bicarbonate in inducing iron chlorosis. Iron chlorosis as proved by lower dry ...