Blebs are spherical membrane protrusions that are produced by contractions of the actomyosin cortex. Blebs are often considered to be a hallmark of apoptosis; however, blebs are also frequently ...

However, some of these cells have ways to thwart such processes, and one such death-defying mechanism has been found to rely on cellular protrusions called blebs. The survival of cells normally ...

CiM researchers show how cells form the blebs they need to migrate. When an organism develops, large numbers of cells migrate from place to place in order to form tissue and organs in the right spots.

The blebs were all over the cells and floating around the water with the phytoplankton. “That picture sort of lingered, and I was always just sort of fascinated by that, and I knew ...

Sometimes, cracks form in the cytoskeleton. The internal pressure pushes the cell membrane outward, forming a bubble called a bleb. By developing a new type of microscope, the team was able to ...

This video of a so-called HeLa cell dividing demonstrates how sensitive the cell division process is. While all is going well at the beginning of the video, as the clip nears its end you can see the ...

In this way, it brings together many such membrane blebs, which the researchers assume could be a precursor to vesicle fusion. Demonstrated in cells This kind of fusion is crucial for the immune ...

Genomic breakdown in the nucleus "These nuclear blebs and segregated micronuclei pose a risk to the integrity of cell's genetic material. When we sequenced the genomic DNA of the primary cells ...

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...

Cleaving hundreds of different kinds of proteins within a cell, these enzymes wreak havoc on the genome, attack structural proteins composing the cell’s organelles, and dismantle the cytoskeleton, ...

Milk blebs, or milk blisters, can occur when nipple pores become blocked during breastfeeding or chestfeeding. They form small white spots that look like milk-filled blisters. Home remedies and ...