Thin, flexible protein strands called actin filaments act like bones for our cells and are critical for its movement. Supercomputer simulations have helped solve a decades-old mystery of how actin ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, reveals that actin—a protein in butterfly's ...

These are members of a team from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine that deciphered the 3-D structure of actin nucleation, a critical but fleeting process that takes place thousands of ...