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An inventory of the structural and regulatory components of adherens junctions (AJs)

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published May 2nd, 2013

Zaidel-Bar compiles 30 years of information about AJ components and their interactions

MBI Professor CT Lim recognized for innovation

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published May 1st, 2013

Co-founder of Clearbridge NanoMedics, MBI principal investigator Professor Lim Chwee Teck is recognized for innovation and excellence in dynamic new field.

New MBI PI Fumio Motegi explores cell polarization and soma-germline fate determination

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published March 19th, 2013

Toward an understanding of the mechanics of the initiation of cell polarization and the spatial patterning of cellular asymmetry.

Yan Jie’s debate-settling work on the structure of DNA in PNAS

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published March 13th, 2013

Three distinct structural reorganizations of torsion-unconstrained DNA revealed by mechanical stretching.

Benoit Ladoux’s latest findings on mechanosensing and cell substrate stiffness in PNAS

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published February 3rd, 2013

Investigating fibroblast cell migration using micro- and nano-fabrication techniques.

Percolation as a Paradigm for Topological Phase Transitions in Transportation Networks

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published October 26th, 2012

Spatial networks from different disciplines are all unified by the theory of networks.

Structural changes in bacterial osmosensing

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published October 25th, 2012

Changes in osmolality are mechanically transduced via the introduction of increased intrahelical bonding in the histidine kinase, EnvZ.

Research Sans Boundaries

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published September 12th, 2012

The mantra of Sheetz’s lab has been ‘pursing interesting leads even when they take us in totally new directions’.

Killing glutamine- addicted cancer

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published June 26th, 2012

Glutaminase structure revealed. Hope for improved cancer treatments.

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) winners Benoit Ladoux and Chwee Teck Lim

By deedupuy@nus.edu.sg | Published June 25th, 2012

MBI scientists awarded prestigious international grant.

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