Although the COVID-19 pandemic was the first time most of humanity learned of the now infamous disease, the family of coronaviruses was first identified in the mid-1960s.

He Kangmin from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently identified a novel endocytic recycling mechanism with kiss-and-run membrane fusion.

Calcium/SNARE-dependent fusion machinery, cytoskeleton-dependent membrane tension, osmotic pressure, calcium/dynamin-dependent fission machinery, and actin/dynamin-dependent force machinery work ...

Exocyst study reveals new roles for protein complex in membrane fusion. Story by Pat Sargent • 1mo. A new study highlighting the importance of a large protein complex called the exocyst in cell ...