Looking at life today, it is difficult to imagine how complex biological processes and structures could have developed from ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed ...

Structural and functional studies of the tail knob protein of bacteriophage ϕ29 shed light on how the phage breaches the membrane barrier and ejects its DNA genome into the host cell.

Membrane proteins perform crucial functions in biological cells, which means they play a key role in medicine and pharmacy. (Visualisations: Shutterstock) Nearly a third of all proteins in living ...

High cell membrane tension constrains the spread of cancer Findings will contribute towards cancer treatments that target physical characteristics of cells~ Date: November 8, 2021 ...

Every living cell maintains a voltage across the cell membrane that results from differences in the concentrations of charged ions inside and outside the cell. In an impressive proof-of-concept ...

The cell membrane is composed of a lipid bilayer, with inner and outer layers of fatty molecules (phospholipids, cholesterol, and glycolipids) oriented in opposite directions.

We wanted to get these proteins out of the cell membrane, so we redesigned them as hyperstable, soluble analogues, which look like membrane proteins but are much easier to work with." ...