"Bacteria just sit around blebbing off little membrane bubbles, and if one of them has this molecule, the choanoflagellates all of a sudden say, 'Aha, there are some bacteria around here.'" ...

What am I looking at? This is a video of a single intestinal epithelial cell labeled with a fluorescent probe for the protein actin as it undergoes the process of blebbing. Each of the “bubbles” you ...

A paper describing the research, titled “Mechanical Model of Blebbing in Nuclear Lamin Meshworks,” was published Feb. 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). “Changes in ...