Friday, September 15, 2006

optically nm resolution

"photoactivated localization microscopy"
Science, 15. Sept 2006

and here is the review. Amazing thing is that these guys constructed the microscope in one of the guy's house while he is jobless.

Monday, September 11, 2006

recent paper picks

Adhesion-mediated mechanosensitivity: a time to experiment, and a time to theorize
Alexander Bershadsky, Michael Kozlov and Benjamin Geiger
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
Volume 18, Issue 5 (October 2006) Pages 472-481



Size-Dependent Diffusion of Membrane Inclusions
Gernot Guigas and Matthias Weiss
Biophysical Journal 91:2393-2398 (2006)

A Kinetic Model Describing the Processivity of Myosin-V
Karl I. Skau, Rebecca B. Hoyle, and Matthew S. Turner
Biophysical Journal 91:2475-2489 (2006)

Low Flagellar Motor Torque and High Swimming Efficiency of Caulobacter crescentus Swarmer Cells
Guanglai Li and Jay X. Tang
Biophysical Journal 91:2726-2734 (2006)

Spatially-resolved fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using a spinning disk confocal microscope
Daniel R. Sisan, Richard Arevalo, Catherine Graves, Ryan McAllister, and Jeffrey S. Urbach
Biophys. J. published 1 September 2006, 10.1529/biophysj.106.084251

The role of F-actin and myosin in epithelial cell rheology
Kathleen M Van Citters, Brenton D Hoffman, Gladys Massiera, and John C. Crocker
Biophys. J. published 1 September 2006, 10.1529/biophysj.106.091264

The emergence of geometric order in proliferating metazoan epithelia
Nature 442, 1038-1041(31 August 2006)