Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown type of molecular motion inside DNA-based droplets: instead of spreading ...

Scientists have discovered tumors can tap a nontraditional pathway to acquire lipoproteins—molecules that transport fat in ...

When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years. Bedaquiline ...

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they ...

Hydrogen energy economy, which includes hydrogen production, storage and conversion has gained wide consideration as an ecofriendly future energy solution with a fuel cell as its conversion device.

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To build their self-reproduction structures, the team began with an aqueous solution containing monomers to be polymerized, a photocatalyst, and a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer ...

By attaching hydrophobic groups like cholesterol, which anchor them into the lipid membrane’s hydrophobic core, scientists have been able to alter the membrane’s properties, such as increasing ...

This fundamental study combines in vitro reconstitution experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate how membrane lipids are transported from the outer to the inner membrane of ...

Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses—They’re the Motherboard of the Cell ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began. How life arose remains a looming ...

An important feature of membranes is what they allow to pass through and what they stop from entering the cell. This influences which molecules are involved in the biological processes that keep ...