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20 February 2026
Steer of Destiny
The shape of a cell and its destiny – how it differentiates and matures – are closely linked. Orchestrating shape is the cell's complexity of inner scaffolding proteins that comprise the cytoskeleton. In this study of cells of the skin's epidermal layer, the cytoskeletal protein spectrin is revealed to coordinate the shape and fate of these cells, the body's vital barrier to external threats
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- Image from work by Arad Soffer & Aishwarya Bhosale, and colleagues
- Gray School of Medical Sciences, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department Cell Biology of the Skin, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Journal of Cell Biology, February 2026
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