Biological membranes of cells and their subunits (organelles) are organized into tiny regions (nanodomains) made up of fats ...
Cells are not isolated units; they continuously exchange proteins, genetic material, and even entire organelles with their ...
A set of new imaging tools now allows researchers to see how specific fat molecules, called phospholipids, are distributed ...
(Nanowerk News) Drawing inspiration from natural sensory systems, an MIT-led team has designed a novel sensor that could detect the same molecules that naturally occurring cell receptors can identify.
The upper size limit on cell-penetrating drug molecules may be much higher than medicinal chemists had thought. A research team reports that molecules believed to be much too large to diffuse across ...
A study could open new pathways for understanding how cholesterol influences cell membranes and their receptors, paving the way for future research on diseases linked to membrane organization. A new ...
Researchers have identified a physical process called “mitochondrial pearling” that explains how cells keep their ...
Nanoparticles built from red blood cell membranes and loaded with a sound-sensitive dye kill liver cancer cells when ...
image: An MIT-led team designed a sensor that may be deployed to screen patients for hard-to-diagnose cancers, or metastatic tumors. The device draws inspiration from the membrane that surrounds all ...