Yeast cell polarity and division dynamics underpin the fundamental processes of asymmetric growth and replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The establishment of polarity is mediated by the ...

Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism in jellyfish embryos that provides new insights into how the body plan of these animals develops along a central axis from their ‘head’ to ‘tail’. The study, ...

All living things polarize, so examining the elements of how this occurs is to study the basic necessities of life. Lombardo’s lab focuses on studying human cell polarity and was recently awarded a ...

A team led by Prof. WANG Chao and Prof. HUANG Chengdong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed the molecular mechanism of ...

Preventing metastasis—the development of cancer cells beyond their original location—remains one of the major goals of current cancer research. Most malignant tumor cells metastasize by exploiting ...

Mammalian oocytes utilize a conserved combination of cell cycle control, cytoskeletal organization, and polarity pathways that are fundamentally shared with other vertebrates and invertebrates.