RNA can control cell migration by acting at focal adhesions
If you aren’t a cell biologist, you may have never heard of focal adhesions (FAs): these are complexes at the surface of many animal cells, mediating the attachment of the cell to its environment and the exertion of force via that environment to help the cell move (or not). FAs are still revealing their secrets, but we know that they contain various specialized proteins that exchange signaling through receptors called integrins. FAs also host a specific mRNA, the one that…
