Physicists from the Universities of Bayreuth and Grenoble have discovered a new mechanism of cell mobility. Their findings ...

Amoeboid Movement In a new theory to explain the mechanism of motility in amoebae and similar cells,the author proposes that streaming cytoplasm contracts at the front of the cell and literally ...

The movement of cells in the human body – known as cell migration – is crucial for immune cells. These cells must move quickly and flexibly in different environments in order to fulfil their role as ...

Malaria parasites undergo an extensive metamorphosis after invasion of erythrocytes. This induces an increase in the surface area of the parasite, a change to an amoeboid shape and requires the ...