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In a bid to better understand how cancer cells power their explosive growth and spread, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine ...

A team of biochemists at the University of California, San Diego, working with a group of biochemical engineers from the ...

The researchers were studying cancer cells in the lab, and blasted them with a laser to shoot small holes in their membranes. The team indeed found that this triggered macropinocytosis, and also ...

How muscle cells seal their membranes Date: March 14, 2012 Source: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Summary: Every cell is enclosed by a thin double layer of lipids that separates the distinct ...

The cells of simple organisms, such as bacteria, as well as human cells are surrounded by a membrane, which fulfills various tasks including protecting the cell from stress. In a joint project ...

AMPA Receptors On Cell Membrane Make Us Smarter Date: September 15, 2009 Source: NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) Summary: AMPA receptors are an important regulating factor ...

This lipid bilayer replicates the cell membranes found in neurons. To measure amyloid-beta's toxicity, the researchers used neuronal cells.

Adopting these methods in cancer cells grown in culture, the researchers showed that preventing the ESCRT pathway from repairing perforin pores in the cell membrane, increased the susceptibility ...

All cells on Earth are made of phospholipid membranes. Now astronomers have found the component molecules in interstellar space. By The Physics arXiv Blog | Published: May 28, 2021 | Last updated ...

University of Alberta research shows how cell membranes play a much larger role than previously understood in allowing spike proteins on viruses to infect cells. The findings, published in the ...