Highlights

  • Water influx helps cells migrate

    Clarifying the role of water influx and swelling as neutrophils migrate in response to chemoattractants.

    Tamas L Nagy, Evelyn Strickland, Orion D. Weiner
    Reviewed Preprint Updated
  • Follow the leader

    Study reveals a leader-follower relation between the two flagella responsible for moving the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

    Da Wei, Greta Quaranta ... Daniel SW Tam
    Research Article
  • Iron metabolism and cancer

    MEMO1 is an iron-binding protein that modulates iron homeostasis in cancer cells.

    Natalia Dolgova, Eva-Maria E Uhlemann ... Oleg Y Dmitriev
    Research Article Updated

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    Jongkyun Kang, Guodong Huang ... Jie Shen
    LRRK plays an essential, cell-intrinsic role in the protection of dopaminergic neurons during aging, and new genetic findings suggest that LRRK2 mutations may impair its function, leading to dopaminergic neurodegeneration in PD.