Structures called desmosomes connect cells to each other and transfer mechanical stress. They are especially important in tissues under continual mechanical stress, such as heart muscle (pictured).

New research has revealed the mechanism that binds skin cells tightly together. The discovery may lead to new treatments for painful and debilitating skin diseases and also lethal heart defects. A ...

In a new study, researchers have implicated the lack of a protein important in hooking our skin cells together in the most common variety of skin cancer. In a study to be published online Oct. 21 in ...

A University of Manchester scientist has revealed the mechanism that binds skin cells tightly together, which he believes will lead to new treatments for painful and debilitating skin diseases and ...

Mature desmosomes are the main adhesive junctions in epithelia and cardiac muscle. Now new work shows that the desmosomal protein desmoplakin is also essential for the maturation of adherens junctions ...

A new University of Manchester study has revealed the mechanism that binds skin cells tightly together. According to researchers, it will lead to new treatments for painful and debilitating skin ...

How does skin hold you in? How do heart cells beat together? Researchers at the University of California, Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, are exploring how structures called desmosomes, ...