Cytokinetics: The cell is a city

In the traditional view, the cell was a soup in which proteins and other molecules floated. The new view sees the cell as a city providing a framework on which the interior of the cell is ordered, with highways, molecular motors that move proteins, street cleaning crews and other organizing elements required to keep the cell functioning properly.

Cytokinetics Inc. is focused on the cytoskeleton - which is comprised of the structures of the cell involved in the dynamic "urban design" of cellular function and mechanics, including cell division, intracellular transport, cell motility and the establishment and regulation of cell polarity...