The activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule (ALCAM) is a critical member of the immunoglobulin superfamily that mediates both homotypic and heterotypic cell interactions. It plays a central role in ...

More than a billion years ago, amoebae split off from their sister eukaryotes, which later gave rise to animals. The talin protein (fluorescing red and white in this microscopic image) is found in ...

When you nick your finger slicing vegetables, the outer layer of your skin starts patching itself within minutes. A study ...

AMES, Iowa – Sanjeevi Sivasankar knows a lot about how the healthy cells in your body stick together. He and his research team have studied cell adhesion proteins called cadherins. They’ve developed ...

A new review reveals how focal adhesion kinase (FAK) acts as a central regulator of tumor progression and immune suppression ...

A physics-based model that accounts for membrane surface folds predicts cell adhesion on nanopillar arrays with 97% accuracy, ...

Penn State researchers have developed a technique they call “cellular snowballing,” in which lab-grown cells mixed with microgel particles self-assemble into larger tissue constructs without external ...

A new comprehensive review is shedding light on the expanding role of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) in cancer biology and its potential as a ...

Light has long been known to regulate plant growth. New research from Osaka Metropolitan University has discovered a new ...