Tag Archive | actin
LabBook June 1, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our new weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. […]
Machine Gunning the Cell’s Legos
Actin is the Lego of the cell. The small proteins can be assembled into many different forms for a wide variety of uses: serving as a scaffold to keep the cell’s shape, a railroad for shipping packages, or a powerful motor to propel the cell or tear it in half. But actin itself is a […]