Ladoux´s team is investigating the relationships between adhesion and mechanical and biochemical signaling for the adaptation of living cells to changes in their physical environment at diverse levels ...

Most cell signals are chemical in nature. For example, prokaryotic organisms have sensors that detect nutrients and help them navigate toward food sources. In multicellular organisms, growth ...

This could be used to produce wearable medical devices that are able to mimic natural biochemical signaling. Most wearable medical devices are still fairly simple. Insulin pumps, for instance ...

The biochemical signaling, meanwhile, is akin to a global coordinate system. "Each cell 'knows' its head and tail, so then it ...

Philip Kurian’s research reveals how biological systems process quantum information—billions of times faster than traditional ...

The protein, known as RKIP, controls activity of kinases, a type of enzyme that acts as a key component in the biochemical signaling pathways responsible for determining almost all cellular activity.

To understand signal processing, it is not sufficient to have detailed biochemical information on each individual protein in a signaling network. Rather, one needs to study how extracellular ...