Chemotaxis is a fascinating biological process, through which a cell migrates along a shallow chemoattractant gradient that is less than 5% difference between the anterior and posterior of the cell.

Chemotactic migration and invasion play an essential role in many normal and pathological processes including immune response, cell differentiation, and tumor metastasis. Methods to study factors that ...

Chemotaxis, the process by which cells move towards soluble factors, is one of the most fascinating areas of modern biology. For cells to migrate up an attractant gradient they must detect signals, ...

The intricate mechanisms that allow certain cells to move have been uncovered by researchers, discoveries with implications for cancer metastasis, say authors of a new report. What if cancer cells ...

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a major barrier to successful allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT). The chemokine receptor CCR5 appears to play a role in alloreactivity. We ...

An all-on-chip method enables rapid neutrophil chemotaxis assay directly from a few microliters of blood for both cell migration research and clinical sample test. A team of researchers from the ...

Users can examine both label-free and fluorescently labeled chemotactic cell invasion or migration and qualitatively assess the morphology of individual cells in each well of an Incucyte® 96-well ...

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have created the world’s simplest artificial cell capable of chemical navigation, migrating toward specific substances like living ...

To measure directional migration, the Transwell ® Boyden chamber has been widely regarded as the mainstay in vitro method. However, it is known for being technically tricky, hard to troubleshoot, and ...

Mice are especially good at sniffing out cheese in a maze, and a new study reveals their sperm are just as good at tracking an egg cell's scent. Even when ovary extracts were extremely diluted, sperm ...

Bacteria existed for millennia before humans and have been infecting us from the beginning. Although we can treat infections through pharmaceuticals, bacteria continue to become resistant to treatment ...

A team of researchers from the University of Manitoba in collaboration with local clinical scientists in Winnipeg, Canada, have developed a new method for rapid neutrophil chemotaxis test directly ...