The adhesive transmembrane proteins anchoring these junctions have extracellular portions that interact with similar proteins on adjacent cells. Protein complexes within each cell further connect ...

Contributed by Matt Ward, President, EticaAG The global transition to renewable energy has fueled an unprecedented demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS). These systems are critical for ...

A new study shows how an anticancer drug triggers an "outside in" signal that gets it sucked into a cancer cell. The work, published Jan. 29 in Nature Communications, reveals a new signaling mechanism ...

P-cadherin is embedded in the cell membrane as a dimer, or matched pair, with P-cadherin on the surface of an adjacent cell. This dimer can exist in two conformations: a more open, "strand-swap ...