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.

Aquaporins are proteins that rapidly transport water across cell membranes while excluding salt. They are critical for maintaining the right balance of water inside and outside cells and for ...

Plant cells have several structures not ... whereas the inner membrane is less permeable and studded with transport proteins. The innermost matrix of chloroplasts, called the stroma, contains ...

Think of a metal with paint on it, like an automobile or a pipeline carrying natural gas. The paint or polymer coating ...

A Revolutionary Method to Observe Cell Transport Oct. 24, 2022 — Membrane proteins are key targets for many drugs. They are located between the outside and inside of our cells.

A research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, has introduced a novel membrane design that mimics ...

Membrane trafficking is the process by which proteins and other macromolecules are distributed throughout the cell, and released ... membrane-bound vesicles as transport intermediaries.

Atelerix, a biotech company revolutionizing cell preservation and biological transport with its pioneering hydrogel encapsulation technology, today announced it has signed an exclusive distribution ...

They separate and connect cells and organelles, they form a barrier or mediate the selective transport of proteins and compounds, they fuse and divide, they engulf, protect or mediate the degradation ...

Scientists have uncovered more than 20 genes whose mutations cause familial forms of Parkinson's disease. One of these genes ...

Conversely, membranes with lower area resistance had a higher salt flux. From these individual membrane results, a methodology was formulated to select component membranes for BPM fabrication, ...