The adult mammalian heart has a limited regenerative capacity, which is not enough to compensate for the extensive cell death that takes place during heart injuries 1. In recent years, there have been ...

Protein evolution occurs slowly via small incremental mutations—usually. However, dramatic changes can happen: for instance, a fragment of one protein getting copied into the middle of another. While ...

Talin-induced integrin binding to extracellular matrix ligands (integrin activation) is the key step to trigger many fundamental cellular processes including cell adhesion, cell migration, and ...