{"id":222021,"date":"2025-09-17T00:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-reveal-hidden-dynamics-of-the-cells-smallest-structures"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:27:54","slug":"scientists-reveal-hidden-dynamics-of-the-cells-smallest-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-reveal-hidden-dynamics-of-the-cells-smallest-structures","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal hidden dynamics of the cell\u2019s smallest structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-hidden-dynamics-of-the-cells-smallest-structures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell\u2019s tiniest components\u2014structures once thought to be static, now revealed to be dynamic engines of cellular life. As they probe the inner workings of cells, they are not only expanding understanding of cellular processes but also paving the way for novel therapies and diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research led by Vladimir Gelfand, Ph.D., the Leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell, Molecular, and Anatomical Sciences, and Sergey Troyanovsky, Ph.D., professor of Dermatology, and of Cell and Developmental Biology, has illuminated new roles for cytoskeletal filaments and intercellular junctions, while a separate study by Brian Mitchell, Ph.D., associate professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, has identified a novel mechanism that protects <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/epithelial+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">epithelial cells<\/a> from damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell\u2019s tiniest components\u2014structures once thought to be static, now revealed to be dynamic engines of cellular life. As they probe the inner workings of cells, they are not only expanding understanding of cellular processes but also paving the way for novel therapies and diagnostics. Recent research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}