A protein that helps generate the force needed for single cells to move works differently in cells moving in groups, a new study shows. A protein that helps generate the force needed for single cells ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Cell migration, or how cells move in the body, is essential to both normal body function and disease progression. Cell movement is what allows ...

Cells can control their ability to move through the body by using a protein called fascin to control the stiffness of neighbouring cells, suggests a new study. Cells can control their ability to move ...

An international team of scientists involving the UPF Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, has discovered how cancer cells exposed to high viscosity environments change the way they move to improve ...

Cells push and pull on surrounding tissue to move in groups as they form organs in an embryo, track down invading bacteria, and become cancerous and spread. Published online in Nature Cell Biology on ...

To decide whether and where to move in the body, cells must read chemical signals in their environment. Individual cells do not act alone during this process, two new studies on mouse mammary tissue ...

A moving cell looks simple from a distance. One edge pushes forward, the rest follows, and the whole thing creeps along as if its contents somehow know where to go. That neat picture leaves out a ...

An ultrasound apparatus arranges gas vesicles into the shape of the letter R in solution. Credit: Caltech Let's say you needed to move an individual cell from one place to another. How would you do it ...

As you read this sentence, trillions of cells are moving around in your body. From the red blood cells being pumped by your heart, to the immune cells racing across your lymphatic system, everything ...

As a child, Makoto Miyata loved tinkering with radios and amplifiers. Now his interest in fiddling with things has only grown—but as a cellular biologist, he does it at a much finer scale. For a paper ...

Pictured here is a group of cells moving toward its correct final position in the tail of a forming zebrafish embryo. Cell membranes are green and the cell nuclei red. A protein that helps generate ...