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A human endogenous fusogen, syncytin, which facilitates placental cell-cell fusion during early embryonic development, mediates the formation of open-ended membrane tubular connections between other cell types that efficiently promotes the intercellular transfer of cytoplasmic cargos including Cas9 protein and organelles.

Protein repairing enzyme PIMT maintains vascular endothelium in a quiescent state, thus preventing the development of inflammatory vascular diseases.

Cardiac intercellular communication plays a critical role in diabetic myocardial fibrosis and specific targeting of Hrc^hi fibroblasts may be a potential therapeutic target for diabetic cardiomyopathy.

YTHDC1 is an essential factor controlling satellite cell regenerative ability through multifaceted gene regulatory mechanisms in myoblast cells.

Exploring how UBQLN2 mutations cause ALS leads to the discovery of a pathway by which an ancient retroelement changes gene expression in human cells.

Genetic or pharmacological suppression of lipid peroxidation pathway protects skeletal muscle from disuse-induced atrophy and weakness in young and old mice.

A simple way to create larger volumes of fat tissue for food purposes may be to grow individual fat cells and mechanically combine them together (rather than directly growing the full tissue).

New role of P2Y₂-αV integrin interactions in ATP-driven pancreatic cancer cell invasion provides a potential anti-metastatic target for pancreatic cancer.

Advanced imaging methods reveal that Siglec-1 spatial distribution on mature dendritic cells is regulated by components of the actin polymerization machinery impacting on its engagement to HIV-particles and virus sequestration toward virus-containing compartments.

The nuclear membrane protein SUN1 stabilizes endothelial cell-cell junctions far from the nucleus via regulation of microtubule dynamics and Rho GEF-H1 signaling, revealing long-range cellular communication important for vascular development and function.