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    Amoeboid cells undergo durotaxis with soft end polarized NMIIA

    Chenlu Kang, Pengcheng Chen ... Congying Wu
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    Structural analysis of the dynamic ribosome-translocon complex

    Aaron J. O. Lewis, Frank Zhong ... Ramanujan S. Hegde
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Biosynthesis: RAMPing up knowledge of the translocon

    Dimitrios Vismpas, Friedrich Förster
    Advanced cryo-EM approaches reveal surprising insights into the molecular structure that allows nascent proteins to be inserted into the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Aging impairs cold-induced beige adipogenesis and adipocyte metabolic reprogramming

    Corey D Holman, Alexander P Sakers ... Patrick Seale
    Single-cell expression profiling and genetic lineage analysis show that aging impairs adipocyte differentiation from precursor cells and blocks the thermogenic activation of adipocytes during cold exposure.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    circHIPK3 nucleates IGF2BP2 and functions as a competing endogenous RNA

    Trine Line Hauge Okholm, Andreas Bjerregaard Kamstrup ... Christian Kroun Damgaard
    1. Cell Biology

    Transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into muscle cells to constitute cultured meat with tunable intramuscular fat deposition

    Tongtong Ma, Ruimin Ren ... Heng Wang
    Efficient myogenic and lipogenic transdifferentiation of chicken fibroblasts in 3D culture produces meat with precisely controlled levels of intramuscular fat and extracellular matrix.

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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