Actin filaments are the smallest type, with a diameter of only about 6 nm, and they are made of a protein called actin. Intermediate filaments, as their name suggests, are mid-sized, with a ...

Although the epidermal-blistering phenotype associated with plectin mutations can simply be ascribed to defects in interactions between intermediate filaments of hemidesmosomes and desmosomes ...

At ETH, it was Liu's hard work, plus a little bit of luck, that led to his discovery of a new method for producing a tissue ...