A new study in *Developmental Cell* has found that desmosomes, long known as adhesive structures in skin, also stockpile messenger RNAs and ribosomes at cell borders. These components remain repressed ...

New research shows that skin cells store protein-making machinery at their edges, enabling rapid repair when the skin barrier is damaged. The system relies on desmosomes, which hold messenger RNAs and ...

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, ...

Microscopy image showing heart muscle cells (gray) in a mouse heart. The plakophilin-2 protein (green) is present in the desmosomes connecting adjacent heart muscle cells. After introduction of the ...