Most knowledge on centrioles has been built by studying dividing animal cells in a narrow group of species, like flies or humans. “Recent technological advances in several fronts allow us to study ...

All life on earth depends upon the process of mitosis or cell division in which the chromosomal content of a cell is equally divided between two new cells. For mitosis to occur, the chromosomes in ...

Cells contain various specialized structures—such as the nucleus, mitochondria or peroxisomes—known as "organelles." Tracing their genesis and determining their structure is fundamental to ...

Centrioles are cylindrical structures involved in the generation of microtubules - fibers inside of cells that form a network to provide structure and shape to cells and to mediate transport processes ...

Centrioles are surrounded by pericentriolar material (PCM), which is proposed to promote new centriole assembly by concentrating γ-tubulin. Here, we quantitatively monitor new centriole assembly in ...

Investigators from the UEx have developed a methodology with new algorithms to analyze the location of the centriole in a model cell. Thanks to this technology, they have been able to discover how the ...

Centrosome duplication is tightly controlled in co-ordination with DNA replication. The molecular mechanism of centrosome duplication remains unclear. Previous studies found that a fraction of human ...

Biophysicists have developed a high-throughput super-resolution microscope to probe nanoscale structures and dynamics of mammalian cells, showing in unprecedented detail the twists and turns of an ...

Specialized cells in our bodies have custom genetic Xerox machines to make a ton of fibrous cilia, scientists at John Hopkins University School of Medicine have found. Most cells in the body have just ...

Investigators from the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group at the University of Extremadura are working on a line of research which studies signalling mediated by a pathway known as planar cell ...