In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Discover how a structural breakthrough in the chikungunya virus is opening new avenues for antiviral drug development and ...

Cell crowding causes high-grade breast cancer cells to become more invasive by activating a molecular switch that causes the cells to shrink and spread.

The following topics, among others, are conisidered: Pfeffer's hypothesis of an invisible plasma membrane, to account for similarities in the osmotic behavior of plant cells and artificial osmometers; ...

In this important study, Kapoor et al, investigate the role of Wag31 in lipid and peptidoglycan biosynthesis in mycobacteria. A detailed analysis of Wag31 domain architecture revealed a role in ...

"This work challenges a major assumption of cell biology by showing that the plasma membrane, the flexible bilayer that surrounds the cell, can have drastically different phospholipid abundances ...

Discussion: Our results indicate that NS treatment may cause damage to photosynthetic membrane lipids, whereas the increase in bilayer lipid DGDG may provide a kind of protection to maintain the ...

UNICAEN, INSERM UMR-S U1237, Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders (PhIND), GIP Cyceron, Institute Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie (BB@C), Normandie University, Caen 14032, France ...

A recent study published in Advanced Functional Materials presents a new approach to improving both water purification and energy generation. The researchers developed a Janus membrane using ...

Membrane trafficking is the process by which proteins and other macromolecules are distributed throughout the cell, and released to or internalised from the extracellular space. Membrane ...

These interfaces facilitate the efficient transfer of materials and information between cells, through the dynamic assembly of molecular platforms at the plasma membrane. Such platforms integrate ...