Cells sprouting filopodia not only look creepy. They keep some pretty nasty company as well. Vaccinia, a member of the poxvirus family that causes smallpox, uses filopodia that sprout from ...

But filopodia can also wreak havoc: metastatic cancer cells use them to invade new regions of the body. Filopodia are ...

Filopodia play a key role in cell movement and migration within the body, the growth of neurons, the healing of wounds, and much more. While filopodia can change their size and shape, they are ...

New research shows how the finger-like structures, called filopodia, can extend themselves, contract and bend in dynamic movements. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

Cells’ Filopodia Rotate and Twist, May Help Cancer Cells Invade March 28, 2022 A team of researchers has added to the world’s understanding of how cells use filopodia to move around in our bodies.

The filopodia observed in the new study contained a protein called CK2. Cells dosed with silmitasertib, a CK2-inhibiting molecule in clinical trials for various cancers, ...

These filopodia help a cell move towards a bacterium, and at the same time, act as sensory feelers that identify the bacterium as a prey," explains Associate Professor Poul Martin Bendix, head of ...

It’s not easy to spot filopodia. Thin wisps of protein less than a micrometer across, they dangle from the surface of a cell, probing its surroundings much as we might grope our way around a ...

But researchers may have been looking in the wrong place. In young animals, silent synapses are formed from larger protrusions called dendritic spines. But in adults, they can be found on the ends of ...

A fluorescence microscopy image shows a two-cell cluster of human colon cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. Infected cells produce filopodia protrusions, shown in white ...

Lamellipodia and filopodia are dynamic surface extensions of the cell which play a pivotal role in cell migration, invasion and wound healing. Biochemists from Frankfurt University have succeeded ...