At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

In a bid to better understand how cancer cells power their explosive growth and spread, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine ...

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

Here we describe a quantitative fluorescence microscopy technique for imaging localized lipid environments and measuring membrane lipid order in live and fixed cells, as well as in intact tissues.

New progress in a long-standing debate about the nature of biological cell membranes could be made by considering which aspects of the membrane can be captured in simplified simulations.

A New Technique Brings Color to Electron Microscope Images of Cells Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have found a way to attach artificial color to biological structures ...

Novel chemical tool for understanding membrane remodeling in the cell Date: May 3, 2024 Source: Umea University Summary: Researchers describe a natural product-like molecule, Tantalosin, that ...

Our Idea Researchers shifted the focus to the internal properties of the membrane itself, specifically its viscosity, highlighting its critical role in controlling deformation and dynamics during ...

Researchers showed that interferon-induced transmembrane proteins (IFITMs) help medium-sized druglike molecules (right), which are too large to diffuse across the plasma membrane, to enter cells.

Loss of skin's pigment-producing cells could be related to basement membrane disruption Suppression of an enzyme might allow melanocytes to recover Date: September 9, 2024 Source: Osaka ...