Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

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The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our ... stiffening and altered plasma membrane viscoelasticity undermine their ...

Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time. In a new study, a team led by The University of Texas at Austin, in ...

The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our ... stiffening and altered plasma membrane viscoelasticity undermine their ...

Image Credit: Elizaveta Galitckaia/Shutterstock.com These vesicles play important roles in cell-to-cell communication ... while larger ones may arise from the plasma membrane.

The resulting layer of water has a structure that is similar to that of bulk water ... In fact, they make up the hydrophilic phospholipid heads of mammalian cell membranes, which play a vital role in ...

Bin Wu, associate professor in the department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at the School of Medicine, visited ...

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.

“This work challenges a major assumption of cell biology by showing that the plasma membrane, the flexible bilayer that surrounds the cell, can have drastically different phospholipid ...

Aquaporins are proteins that rapidly transport water across cell membranes while excluding ... organized into a helix structure called polymers, or into cyclic structures called macrocycles.