The Extracellular Matrix: Reloaded Revolutions

Sensor Networks: Distributed Algorithms Reloaded - or Revolutions?

This paper wants to motivate the distributed algorithms community to study sensor networks. We discuss why sensor networks are distributed algorithms, and why they are not.

The mineralized extracellular "matrix" reloaded: a tissue engineering perspective.

The Matrix Reloaded: How Sensing the Extracellular Matrix Synchronizes Bacterial Communities

In response to chemical communication, bacterial cells often organize themselves into complex multicellular communities that carry out specialized tasks. These communities are frequently referred to as biofilms, which involve the collective behavior of different cell types. Like cells of multicellular eukaryotes, the biofilm cells are surrounded by self-produced polymers that constitute the ext...

Matrix reloaded: the matrix metalloproteinase paradox.

Chronic hypertension leads to adaptive processes in the heart, called remodeling, which are characterized by hypertrophic changes of cardiomyocytes and by structural alterations of the extracellular matrix. Although these processes are initially compensatory and preserve cardiac contractile performance, they finally lead to left ventricular (LV) dilatation and heart failure. Thus, factors playi...

Oogenesis: Matrix Revolutions

The mechanism of egg-chamber elongation during Drosophila oogenesis has always been mysterious. A new study shows that the egg chambers spin around their long axis laying down polarised extracellular matrix, which acts as a molecular corset to restrict radial expansion.