Bacteria, primitive single-celled organisms, communicate with chemical languages that allow them to synchronize their...

This lecture covers the biochemical basis of actin-based motility (focusing on the pathogen Listeria as a model...

What do "mad cows", people with neurodegenerative diseases and yeast cells growing happily on a deadly antibiotic...

How do simple cells differentiate, assemble into communities, and cope with change? Losick's seminar addresses these...

Pheromones have evolved to signal the sex and the dominance status of animals and to promote social and mating...

Molecular motor proteins are fascinating enzymes that power much of the movement performed by living organisms. In...

Protein secretion is executed by a cellular pathway involving the delivery of membrane and soluble secretory proteins...

The size of an organ or organism depends mainly on the sizes and numbers of the cells it contains. In the first...

The plasma membrane demarcates the inside of the living cell from the outside, serving both as the ultimate physical...

Although snails are not the first animals that come to mind when venoms are mentioned, there are in fact a large...

In this set of lectures, Jeremy Nathans explores the molecular mechanisms within the retina that mediate the first...

Apoptosis a form of programmed cell death that plays important roles during animal development, immune response,...

Cell-substratum adhesion is mediated by integrins, a family of transmembrane, heterodimeric, extracellular matrix...

Imatinib (Gleevec) has become a paradigm for targeted cancer therapies. The first part of this lecture will describe...