Historically, the centrosome has been linked to cell-cycle control and its role in cancer has been studied extensively. More recent evidence has shown, however, that the centrosome is also involved in ...

The centrosome nucleates microtubules; it is important for cell shape, motility and division. During S phase of the cell cycle, the single centrosome that is present in a G1-phase cell is duplicated.

A recent Cell Reports paper by the Oxenius group (IMB) demonstrates a function of targeted centrosome inheritance during CD8 ...

Researchers have solved an important puzzle in neurobiology: the wiring and the movement of nerve cells are interwoven, but separately controlled. The study focuses on neuronal growth and migration: ...

Unseen and ongoing, thousands of times every second: to keep a complex organism like humans alive, an immense number of new cells must be continuously produced. Up close, each of these cell divisions ...

The use of stem cells to repair organs is one of the foremost goals of modern regenerative medicine. Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) have ...

Intra-patient genomic heterogeneity of single circulating tumor cells (CTCs) associated to phenotypic CTC heterogeneity in metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). SOD2 rs4880 CT/CC ...

In humans and other mammals, cardiac muscle cells stop replicating soon after birth, unlike the cardiac muscle cells in, say, zebrafish and amphibians. What do zebrafish and amphibian cardiomyocytes ...

Centrosomes are small structures in cells with many essential functions, including roles in cell signaling and in organizing a cell’s cytoskeleton. Centrosome dysfunction contributes to diseases like ...

Le centrosome est composé de deux centrioles perpendiculaires l'un par rapport à l'autre, eux-mêmes composés de microtubules. Élément particulier situé dans le cytoplasme, il est considéré comme un ...

Damage to the human heart causes cardiac muscle cells to die, which in turn leads to reduced heart function and death. However, this is not the case for zebrafish or amphibians. If their hearts become ...