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Molecular Cell Biology

Neuron extensions with low NO
01.02.2016

How do neurons decide when to grow and when to stop growing?

The Homebody RNA
01.01.2016

Why does some RNA stay in the nucleus rather than rushing off to make proteins? 

PYK2 (red) and the cell-surface receptor (green) that triggers the cellular transition to a pro-metastatic state are found in the same membrane compartment (yellow) from which the transition signal is transmitted
08.07.2015

A signal stuck in the “on” position may hasten metastasis in certain breast cancers

Cultured colorectal cancer cells. Top: Cells that have become resistant to certain forms of chemotherapy and continue to thrive. Bottom: The same cells, which have had the LIP gene inserted and are then treated with chemotherapy drugs
02.07.2015

What makes cancer cells survive chemotherapy?

Normal human colonic crypts. SMOC-2 expression (red) in the colonic stem cells demonstrates that these cells are localized in the bottoms of the crypts. Bars represent 100 micrometers (left) and 50 micrometers (right)
29.06.2015

Some tumor cells in the advanced stages of colorectal cancer adopt a...

A melanoma cancer cell is labeled with invadopodia markers in fluorescence microscopy
14.06.2015

How does a cancer cell push its way out of the surrounding tissue?

cytoskeleton structure
11.05.2015

The growth of cellular “skeletons” reveals a clear directional pattern

Activity of a glucose-manufacturing gene in mouse liver tissue, viewed under a fluorescence microscope. A high concentration of mRNA (red dots) reveals that this activity is highest near a blood vessel (PP) that bathes the tissue in oxygen-rich blood, essential for glucose manufacture
01.03.2015

Fits and spurts of gene expression help the liver cope with change

Paradox Alice in Wonderland
22.09.2014

Why do biological systems use the same signaling molecule for opposite purposes?

(l-r) Dr. Ariel Livne, Prof. Benjamin Geiger and Dr. Eran Bouchbiner
14.08.2014

To understand how cells orient themselves, Weizmann Institute researchers turned to a model from physics

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