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Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›
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Getting It Together: Tethers, Handshakes, and Multitaskers in the Cell

Running a cell requires coordination. How do molecules moving in the dark interior of a cell know how and when to connect? Protein tethers offer new clues. Read More ›
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Mitochondria Promoted to Information Processing Systems

The label “powerhouses of the cell” was too simplistic for the many tasks performed every second by these computing, networking, signaling, regulating wonders. Read More ›

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