News tagged with microtubules
Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in Quantum Consciousness Model
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists don't fully understand how consciousness works, and, so far, no classical theories can explain consciousness in the brain. In light of this lack of understanding, some researchers ...
Single molecule tracking helps reveal mechanism of chromosome separation in dividing cells
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Washington (UW) researchers are helping to write the operating manual for the nano-scale machine that separates chromosomes before cell division. The apparatus is called a spindle ...
Scientists deconstruct cell division
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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The last step of the cell cycle is the brief but spectacularly dynamic and complicated mitosis phase, which leads to the duplication of one mother cell into two daughter cells. In mitosis, the chromosomes ...
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The downside of microtubule stability
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Stalled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report in the Journal of Cell Biology . A mutant protein makes the mi ...
The plant cell's corset
Sep 02, 2009 |
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We still have a lot to discover about the mechanism in plants that ensures cell growth in a specific direction. However it is clear that a structure of parallel protein tubes plays an important role. Simon Tindemans investigated ...
Advance in understanding cellulose synthesis
Jun 14, 2009 |
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Cellulose is a fibrous molecule that makes up plant cell walls, gives plants shape and form and is a target of renewable, plant-based biofuels research. But how it forms, and thus how it can be modified to design energy-rich ...
Mitosis gets harder thanks to new gene discovery
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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A biological process taught to every pupil studying science at high school has just become a little more complicated thanks to a new discovery published today.
Surprising origin of cell's internal highways
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Scientists have long thought that microtubules, part of the microscopic scaffolding that the cell uses to move things around in order to hold its shape and divide, originated from a tiny structure near the nucleus, called ...
Molecular motors and brakes work together in cells
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Jan 30, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that microtubules -- components responsible for shape, movement, and replication within cells -- use proteins that act as molecular ...
Finding about cellular microtubule rigidity could lead to development of new nano-materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Microtubules, essential structural elements in living cells, grow stiffer as they grow longer, an unexpected property that could lead to advances in nano-materials development, an international team of biophysicists has found.
Dartmouth researchers find new protein function
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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A group of Dartmouth researchers has found a new function for one of the proteins involved with chromosome segregation during cell division. Their finding adds to the growing knowledge about the fundamental ...
Scientists identify a molecule that coordinates the movement of cells
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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Even cells commute. To get from their birthplace to their work site, they sequentially attach to and detach from an elaborate track of exceptionally strong proteins known as the extracellular matrix. Now, in research to appear ...
Biological motors sort molecules one by one on a chip
May 11, 2006 |
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Researchers from Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have discovered how to use the motors of biological cells in extremely small channels on a chip. Based on this, they built a ...
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