Pulling together

Pulling the Pieces Together:

Pulling It All Together

Hundreds of pathways, thousands of cell types, tens of thousands of molecules, megabytes of data, and seemingly infinite biological networks—the study of life has perhaps never been more daunting. What ever happened to the explanation from Miller-Urey’s experiment on life’s origins, involving just four compounds, or the simple (okay, merely seemingly simple) unidirectional flow from DNA/RNA/pro...

Mechanotransduction - a field pulling together?

Mechanical stresses are ever present in the cellular environment, whether through external forces that are applied to tissues or endogenous forces that are generated within the active cytoskeleton. Despite the wide array of studies demonstrating that such forces affect cellular signaling and function, it remains unclear whether mechanotransduction in different contexts shares common mechanisms....

Synthesis : Pulling It All Together

Address: 1Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Canada, 2Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 5804 Fairview Avenue, Vancouver, Canada, 3Centre for Research in Women's Health, 790 Bay St., 7th Floor, Toronto, Canada, 4Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Canada, 5Unive...

Pulling together with type IV pili.

Type IV pili are an efficient and versatile device for bacterial surface motility. They are widespread among the beta-, gamma-, and delta-proteobacteria and the cyanobacteria. Within that diversity, there is a core of conserved proteins that includes the pilin (PilA), the motors PilB and PilT, and various components of pilus biogenesis and assembly, PilC, PilD, PilM, PilN, PilO, PilP, and PilQ....