When tissue is starved of oxygen, the body’s first line of rescue is the growth of new blood vessels, a process known as ...

Cell membranes and the proteins within them control many vital processes and play a key role in health and disease. But ...

Our cells' membranes have many functions. They not only provide mechanical protection but also precisely control which ...

To enter cells, the COVID-19 virus fuses its surrounding membrane with the membrane of the target cell. This is where the ...

Engineered cell membranes help antibiotic carrying nanoparticles target drug resistant Gram negative bacteria, boosting ampicillin activity at far lower concentrations.

The human intestine is a soft, flexible tissue. Yet the environments traditionally used to culture intestinal cells in the laboratory are strikingly different from those found in the body.

Cells are enveloped by a lipid membrane that gives them structure and provides a barrier between the cell and its environment. However, evidence has recently emerged suggesting that these membranes do ...

In a bid to better understand how cancer cells power their explosive growth and spread, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have shed new light on the location and function of ...

Researchers shifted the focus to the internal properties of the membrane itself, specifically its viscosity, highlighting its critical role in controlling deformation and dynamics during essential ...

Scientists are poking holes in established ideas about how cells live and die, and are harnessing these discoveries to fight diseases from cancer to autoimmune conditions.

Scientists have identified the precise molecular mechanism that lets brown recluse venom shred human cells from the inside, a ...