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

The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to ...

"Our breakthrough could have significant implications for understanding diseases related to cell membrane function, particularly cancer, where membrane organization is critical," said Hafner, a ...

In addition to creating, in 2018, an artificial cell membrane lasting for five days, in 2019, Dr. Kim's team demonstrated the transfer of a positive ion to the inside of a structure with an ...

May 18, 2022: Tunable and scalable fabrication of artificial cell membrane (Nanowerk News) In nature, the cell membrane has a unique function of protecting the internal from the external environment ...

A research team reports that molecules believed to be much too large to diffuse across the cell membrane can enter with help from a family of membrane proteins (Science 2022, DOI: 10.1126/science ...

Yale researchers and their colleagues in Hungary have discovered that cells in the hypothalamus — an area of the brain that controls functions like hunger and body temperature — play a major role in ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and ETH Zürich have created the first ...