In a new study published in Cell Reports, researchers at the University of Freiburg reveal how a disordered protein segment ...

A more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting rare earth elements that power everything from electric vehicle batteries to smartphones could increase domestic supply and ...

Membrane biophysics is the study of ... and the effect they have on paracellular transport and phenomena relating to cell shape. Molecular simulations are used to quantify how the binding ...

Sterols, such as cholesterol in our bodies or ergosterol in yeast cells, are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic ...

Innovative delivery techniques, including high-tech nanoparticles and electroporationdevices, may convey more gene therapies into the clinic.

Study in mice shows how a host-elicited factor benefits gut immunological homeostasis by selectively targeting commensal ceramide molecules.

A new study by Vanderbilt investigators has uncovered a previously unknown biological mechanism: how tissues detect and ...

The work tests and revises a 50-year old textbook model, known as the Bloch hypothesis, for the evolution of sterol metabolism in eukaryotic cells. The results indicate that the complexity of sterol ...

From these individual membrane results, a methodology was formulated to select component membranes for BPM fabrication, primarily considering their transport characteristics. Three BPMs were ...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Department of Physiology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea ...

Structural studies of membrane proteins historically have relied almost exclusively on first removing membrane proteins from the membrane with dispersive agents like detergents. But dispersive agents ...