Pulled from a protein's embrace

Just a pulled hamstring?

Cell Migration: Recoiling from an Embrace

For proper spacing or rapid dispersion, some migratory cells are guided by repulsive collisions with their neighbors. A new study reveals that a surprising intercellular coupling of leading edge actin networks forms the basis of mutual repulsion in Drosophila hemocytes.

P-83: Cloned Sheep Blastocysts Derived from Oocytes Enucleated Manually Using A Pulled Pasteur Pipette

Background: The potential applications of a simplified method of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) that is improved in both efficiency and throughput is considerable. Technically, a major step of SCNT is to produce large pools of enucleated oocytes (cytoplasts) efficiently, a process that requires considerable micromanipulation skill and expensive equipment. Here, we have devel oped an efficient...

Fluctuating pulled fronts & Pomerons

I give a physical discussion of the influence of particle number fluctuations on the high energy evolution in QCD. I emphasize the event–by–event description and the correspondence with the problem of ‘fluctuating pulled fronts’ in statistical physics. I show that the correlations generated by fluctuations reduce the phase–space for BFKL evolution up to saturation. Because of that, the evolutio...

Inward and outward membrane tubes pulled from giant vesicles

Membrane nanotubes are extruded from giant unilamellar lipid vesicles using a controlled hydrodynamic flow and membrane-attached beads manipulated via optical tweezers. Within a single experiment, the technique can be used to assess various important mechanical and rheological characteristics of the membrane such as the bending rigidity, tension and intermonolayer slip. The application of small...