A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

Low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSC), accounts for just 5% to 10% of all epithelial ovarian cancers, but its distinct ...

At subsecond time-scales and micron length-scales, cells behave as fluid-filled sponges in which shape changes necessitate intracellular fluid redistribution. However, whether these cytoplasmic ...

In the forests of upstate New York, little brown bats hang upside down in caves, sometimes for decades. One of them was once ...

Bowel cancer cells were found to have ‘shapeshifted’ into skin cells, which are shown in brown (Dr Kevin Myant/PA) The latest study found bowel cancer cells can adapt to resemble skin cells, which can ...

Second Affiliated Hospital, and Department of Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China; State Key Laboratory of Transvascular Implantation Devices, China; ... Migration of the ...

Cell Biology. Open access. ... Border cells form a collective cluster of four to six migratory cells that surround two nonmotile polar cells which detaches from the anterior follicular epithelium ...

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ... At compartment borders, cells become sorted and form a long, smooth boundary. Compartments were also shown to exist in vertebrates 94 and serve two purposes.

More information: Alexander George et al, Chemotaxis of Drosophila border cells is modulated by tissue geometry through dispersion of chemoattractants, iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111959 ...