Researchers have developed a particularly simple model that reproduces the swimming mechanism of amoebas. They show that, by changing shape, these single cell organisms propel themselves forward in a ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, marked by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells. What makes it more dangerous is the ability of cancer cells to move quickly through the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 31, 2017 -- Rhythmic patterns and precise motions -- these are key elements of proper swimming. Olympians demonstrate repeated patterns of breathing, with synchronized head, ...

Scientists headed by a team at the University of Tokyo have identified a protein, known as podoplanin (PDPN), that is common to both human and canine mucosal melanoma, and which appears to mobilize ...

Metastatic dissemination is the main cause of cancer deaths. Cell migration and invasion underlie the complex set of events that are required for metastasis to succeed. Cancer cells can disseminate ...

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 pulls it along ...

Rhythmic patterns and precise motions are key elements of proper swimming, and comparable demonstrations of this pattern repetition and power usage can be seen in a microscopic swimmer -- the amoeboid ...