A University of Manchester scientist has revealed the mechanism that binds skin cells tightly together, which he believes will lead to new treatments for painful and debilitating skin diseases and ...

Mature desmosomes are the main adhesive junctions in epithelia and cardiac muscle. Now new work shows that the desmosomal protein desmoplakin is also essential for the maturation of adherens junctions ...

How does skin hold you in? How do heart cells beat together? Researchers at the University of California, Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, are exploring how structures called desmosomes, ...

Cell biologists have developed a new method for measuring how mechanical forces in cells are processed. The skin is our largest organ, and, among other things, it provides protection against ...