Disruption of the cell plasma membrane is a commonplace occurrence in many mechanically challenging, biological environments. 'Resealing' is the emergency response required for cell survival.

A research group has developed a technology for mass-producing uniform artificial cells (lipid bilayer vesicles) with ...

Caveolae have a role in mechanosensation in specific cell types. The underlying link between these functions might be a role in sensing membrane changes, a property that is reliant on the specific ...

Inside your body, countless processes are happening every second to keep you alive. Among them is a little-known but powerful ...

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Imagine a bacterial cell—one of the multi-drug-resistant varieties that keep infectious disease experts up at night—blown ...

Scientists discovered that axons don’t quite look like straight cables. Instead, axons often appear like pearls on a string.

One of the great biological mysteries of the human body is how hundreds of complex, origami-like proteins, many of which are ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program provides multi-year funding to promising early-career investigators conducting ...

Hyperthermia, a cancer treatment using controlled heat to kill tumor cells, shows promise but faces limitations due to some ...

Over 500 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes—a disease that contributes to major complications such as stroke, kidney failure, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease.