Skin, our largest organ, acts as a protective barrier against pathogens that try to invade our bodies while constantly ...

Astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly scattered through space but arranged in enormous cosmic filaments and walls forming a vast cosmic web. These structures can stretch hundreds ...

The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn’t believe it was real. But it was—and Jung and her colleagues went on to ...

Filament winding is a common and enabling manufacturing process for producing composite items such as pressure vessels, driveshafts, electrical fuses and numerous other bodies of revolution. Fiber ...

Structures called desmosomes connect cells to each other and transfer mechanical stress. They are especially important in tissues under continual mechanical stress, such as heart muscle (pictured).

Dynamic regulation of mitochondrial fission and fusion is crucial for maintaining cellular homeostasis. However, the process regulating mitochondrial fission, especially the constriction step, is ...

Mechanical forces are transduced to nuclear responses via the linkers of the nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex, which couples the cytoskeleton to the nuclear lamina and associated ...

Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418624122 Scientists have uncovered new details about cellular filaments that play a critical role in wound healing, ...

Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an estrogen independent manner. Targeting vimentin and/or the long ...