The meiotic spindle in oocytes is formed without centrosomes. How a bipolar spindle is assembled and maintained around chromosomes in oocytes remains to be established. Multiple kinases are known to regulate the meiotic spindle, but how they execute their function is poorly understood. We found t...
Obesity and diabetes associated visual impairment and vascular dysfunctions are increasing reasons for vision loss. The detailed mechanisms in these diseases are still largely unknown, but mice models have been useful to study these mechanisms and explore the detailed effects of potential compounds....
Pediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is a disease of abnormally growing B lymphoblasts. Here we hypothesized that extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are nanosized particles released by all cells (including cancer cells), could be used to monitor B-ALL by sampling plasma instead of ...
Global regulation of spindle-associated proteins is crucial in oocytes due to the absence of centrosomes and their very large cytoplasmic volume, but little is known about how this is achieved beyond involvement of the Ran-importin pathway. We previously uncovered a novel regulatory mechanism in Dr...
