How You Can Use Hypertrophy to Grow Your Muscles
Rest assured, the hype is real. Hypertrophy is, by definition, the enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in ...
Nature23y
The myosin swinging cross-bridge model
No biological system has been studied by more diverse approaches than the actin-based molecular motor myosin. Biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, classical genetics and molecular genetics have ...
Nature3mon
The Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction
An individual sarcomere contains many parallel actin (thin) and myosin (thick) filaments. The interaction of myosin and actin proteins is at the core of our current understanding of sarcomere ...
Hosted on MSN11mon
Scientists discover how a motor protein helps cells move
To achieve this, non-muscle myosin 2 forms higher-order filaments within the cell, which then interact with the actin cytoskeleton network to apply force and produce movement. Until recently ...
The Scientist1y
How Red Blood Cells Get Their Dimples
View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A.S. Smith et al., “Myosin IIA interacts with the spectrin-actin membrane skeleton to control red blood cell membrane curvature and deformability ...
Scripps Institute spin-out company raises $3 million
A Jupiter company secured millions in a seed funding round backed by Florida-based investors such as DeepWork Capital and the Florida Opportunity Fund.