Samurai sword protein makes strategic cuts in cell skeletons
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Just as our bodies have skeletons, so do our cells. They're equally indispensible in both cases. Without our bony skeletons we'd go limp and fall down. And without our cytoskeletons, our cells, which come in roughly 200 different shapes and sizes, would all become tiny spheres and stop working.