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You might have seen motile microorganisms moving from one place to another. But will you believe if someone says that cells within out body are able to move from one place to another using their own systems? If not, then you will believe it now! Recently in one research at Riken Centre for Developmental Biology, cell moving proteins have been identified. The protein named talin A, helps cell to migrate and divide. This protein is linked to cytoskeleton and cell membrane. In an experiment, it has been observed that cell remarkably move , creep over substrates using various forms of pulls, pushes, drags and even stretches to get from position A to Position B. The cytoskeleton, a collective form of motor protein and structural complexes helps in achieving this.
The complex of filamentous actin and the motor protein myosin II which is known as cortical actomyosin is acting as driving force for changes in cell morphology and movements. In spite of this, the mystery still remains that how it is accomplished. The invention of this will bring many new applications which will be helpful in diagnosis and treatment of diseases at cellular level.

Apart from these developments in cell biology, a new research in this field is complete understanding of “The Notch Pathway” which is a cell communication pathway conserved throughout the animal kingdom and is linked to major diseases including cancer. Apart from its role in controlling cell growth, the Notch Pathway is believed to regulate the cell morphology and cytoskeleton. With analysis of Genome and Notch regulated genes, key proteins can be controlled which are involved in cell morphology. Thus many defect related to muscle, cell development will be cured in better way which was an imagination earlier to development in biotechnology!