In mechanobiology, cells' forces have been considered fundamental to their enhanced function, including fast migration. But a group of researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington ...

Konstanz researchers identify an enzyme that plays a role in the migration of cells in our body—not only during normal tissue formation and wound healing, but also when tumor cells metastasize. This ...

"Cell movement is essential for cancer cells to spread from the primary tumor to secondary sites. Even though this is widely recognized as the key step in cancer progression, there are currently no ...

The innate immune response is the body's first line of defense against infection, and a successful immune defense takes a village: a combination of physical barriers, chemical attacks, and an army of ...

Cell migration underpins critical processes such as embryonic development, immune surveillance and tumour metastasis. The dynamics of motile cells arise from a complex interplay between intracellular ...

A new study integrated mathematical modeling with advanced imaging to discover that the physical shape of the fruit fly egg chamber, combined with chemical signals, significantly influences how cells ...

Cell migration is a multistep process essential to various physiological functions, including immune cell movement and embryonic development, as well as pathological conditions like tumor metastasis.

Traditional electrotaxis assays place electrodes directly into the cell culture medium, which inevitably drives current through the sample. That current can alter pH, create chemical gradients, and ...

How do cells move from A to B through our body to build functional tissues? And how is this process regulated? The answers to these questions are essential – for example, for our understanding of how ...