The glycocalyx surrounds each cell in the human body like a coat. This complex sugar layer plays a key role in the ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

Stem cells differentiated into brain and neural organoids may help scientists understand both brain development and ...

Certain types of lipids resist being crowded, while others can get shoved in as tight as sardines. And the packing density is ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing report that two pore-forming proteins from the common ...

Mitochondria are specialized structures within cells that are primarily responsible for energy production but that also play ...

Turns out, it's all about perspective: When physicist Rana Ashkar's team members looked at how membranes behave on the ...

A project at Aston University to extract proteins from cell membranes for better drug discovery and testing has won a ...