This unprecedented level of detail allows scientists to understand how mutations in this structure lead ... molecules in the thick filaments and actin in the thin filaments, which cause them ...

Beyond the dusty shell, bright radial filaments of sulfur extend three light-years out from their point of origin. The Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawai‘i has ...

An individual sarcomere contains many parallel actin (thin) and myosin (thick) filaments. The interaction of myosin and actin proteins is at the core of our current understanding of sarcomere ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast structure in our galaxy, made up of many interconnected "nurseries" where stars are born. The long, thin filament of gas is a whopping 9,000 light-years long and ...