They created a cell with a minimal, adaptable membrane, offering a unique platform to study how lipid complexity evolved and ...

Researchers have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: They have discovered how a cell ... membrane reservoir) templates can now easily be used to test these theories. "It is easy, done ...

Global research shows how plankton adapt their cell membranes to survive changing ocean light, nutrients, and temperature.

The cell membrane is one of the most important components ... mankind another step closer to being able to create artificial life forms from scratch, chemists from the University of California ...

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ...

However, imaging is confined to the cell surface. A recent wave of applications was aimed at membrane transport events in living cells. EF fluorescence microscopy offers new insights for its ...

Much like the computer programs that allow architects to design building, Tinkercell allows a user to drag and drop various cell components–from membrane ... will can design life at home.

The origin of life is one the great unanswered questions ... it forms the hydrophilic head of phospholipid molecules that self-assemble into cell membranes. Rivilla and colleagues say its ...

An artificial cell membrane ... the properties of real cell membranes, but they have lacked a “divisome”, a group of proteins responsible for contorting the cell’s membrane into hourglass ...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: they have discovered how a cell's outer membrane pinches ... can watch, in real time under a ...