More insight into the process could improve crop productivity WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, ...

Membrane biophysics is the study of the physical principles governing biological membranes, including lipid-raft formation and protein–lipid coupling, as well as their mechanical characteristics ...

Membrane proteins are proteins found in cell membranes, either at the surface or on intracellular organelles. Integral membrane proteins such as receptors and ion channels span the membrane ...

Department of Biospectroscopy and Bioelectrochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 7, Vilnius LT-10257, Lithuania ...

Seven years later, any aura of idealism that surrounded Mr. Musk is gone. His lauded plan for low-cost electric vehicles was unofficially scrapped a year ago, and after a short feud with Donald Trump, ...

But, manufacturing these solid electrolytes has been a challenge. Previous methods resulted in thick membranes – sometimes up to 1 millimeter — that reduced energy density. The Electronics and ...

However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell nucleus to function properly and to assemble multiprotein complexes like the photosynthetic apparatus. Specialized ...

After the vitamin-drug conjugate diffuses to the cell, it docks with the above receptor, invaginates with the receptor and surrounding membrane to form an endosome inside the cell, traffics to the ...

Bacteria use a broad variety of membrane transport systems to deliver effectors to other cells and to the ... These effectors must be specifically recognized, selected and transported by the secretion ...

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String theory is the best candidate we have for a theory of everything. Bend to its rule and the various tangled theories of conventional physics emerge as part of a sublime, higher-dimensional ...

Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...