A research collaboration has discovered that cancer invasion and migration can be supressed in mice by manipulating the stiffness of the cell membrane. Hopefully this will contribute towards the ...

The results have been published in The EMBO Journal. The cell membrane is a flexible protective layer that surrounds our cells, separates them from the environment and regulates the exchange of ...

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 ...

Lipids are the building blocks of a cell's envelope - the cell membrane. In addition to their structural function, some lipids also play a regulatory role and decisively influence cell growth.

These membranes, composed of flexible lipid bilayers, can reshape and remodel themselves during processes like cell movement, division, and molecular trafficking. Until now, it was commonly assumed ...

Cholesterol is an essential component of the membrane surrounding every human cell, despite its poor reputation as a health concern when its blood levels are too high. The key to health is having ...

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are spherical lipid nanoparticles with a diameter of 20-300 nm. These vesicles are derived from the cell membrane of Gram-negative bacteria and are composed of ...