Scientists have developed a membrane that can be tuned to selectively enhance or suppress ion flow, mimicking how living ...

In a scientific first, researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Diego, have generated a ...

In every living cell, there are membranes, and in every membrane there are proteins, each of which acts as a chemical ...

In living organisms, the cell membrane plays a crucial role. It’s not just a protective barrier—it also senses the ...

One of Titan's punchiest weather features is its methane clouds, which eventually produce rain. When this hydrocarbon ...

These lakes, filled with liquid methane and ethane, provide a unique environment where such structures—vital for forming protocells that support chemical reactions—could emerge on their own ...

Such compounds penetrate the cell through one of two major routes, either by destabilizing the lipid bilayer, aka diffusion and self-promoting influx, (10,11) or via beneficial interaction with one of ...

LMU researchers have demonstrated a possible mechanism for metabolic processes without cell membranes in water-filled pores.