Scientists have found that an increase in water salinity in the cells of the marine diatom Nitzschia weakens the connections ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a dual regulatory mechanism safeguarding ...

Multi-laser picodroplets can be used in single cell analysis, sorting and dispensing - discover how in this article.

Titania nanoparticles damage enveloped viruses by directly binding with membrane phospholipids – a previously unknown mode of antiviral action ...

We have seen unprecedented advantages of phospholipid bilayer nanodiscs in membrane protein structure characterization ... For example, adsorption of nanodiscs on nanosized cell surfaces, binding of ...

Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya ...

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

Unit of Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Facultat de Medicina, Av. Can Domènech s/n, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain ...

We hypothesized that DMP affected the structure of cell walls and membranes of P. fluorescens, leading to the inhibition of key enzyme activities of the cell membrane. In this study, we used Fourier ...