Dec 2, 2024 | Catchfire, FAST and splitFAST, Mammals
First disclosure of CATCHFIRE in neurogenesis studies, namely tethering mitochondria and microtubules during the mitosis of neural stemcells. A team led by Dr. Evelyne Fischer and Xavier Morin of ENS-PSL (Paris, France) have just disclosed the first application of...
May 13, 2024 | FAST and splitFAST, Mammals
A team led by Prof. Joris De Wit of KU Leuven has just elucidated the role of a special GPCR in dendritic spine maturation with splitFAST of The Twinkle Factory. Synapses, the junctions connecting neurons into neural circuits, are most diverse, morphologically,...
Mar 4, 2024 | FAST and splitFAST, Mammals
Dr. Joe McKellar et al. from IRIM (Montpellier, France) have just elucidated a modality of interferon-inducible MX1 against Influenza A with FAST of The Twinkle Factory. Myxovirus resistance protein (MX1) is an enzyme of the antiviral response induced by interferons...
Jan 1, 2024 | FAST and splitFAST, Mammals
A team led by Paola Pizzo and Riccardo Filadi of the University of Padova has just enabled endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria junction studies with splitFAST of The Twinkle Factory. The interest in such membrane contact sites (MCSs) between membranous organelles has...
Dec 2, 2023 | FAST and splitFAST, Mammals
Chi-Lun Chang of the St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Alison Tebo of HHMI’s Janelia campus, and team, have just disclosed lipid droplets equipped with splitFAST to enable lipid droplets interactions studies. Contact sites between lipid droplets and other...
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