A research team has developed a compact peritoneal dialysis device that can be utilized as a portable artificial kidney. This ...

If this peritoneal dialysis device is commercialized as a portable system, it is expected to significantly improve the ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering has announced that a research team led by Professor Sung Jae Kim of the Department of Electrical and ...

Elizabeth Knowles’ baby sister, Jermeek Rolle, is her hero – literally. She donated a kidney to her sister who was in end ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the portion of the cell responsible for manufacturing and folding proteins. Proteins are ...

For patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a common genetic disorder that ravages the waste-removing organ with cysts ...

GAS2 is a cytoskeletal regulator that interacts with both F-actin and microtubules. Here, cryo-EM structures of GAS2 domains ...

This important study shows, for the first time, the structure and snapshots of the dynamics of the full-length soluble Angiotensin-I converting enzyme dimer. The combination of structural and ...

Membrane proteins are proteins found in cell ... leveraged cryo-EM to solve the protein structure of the enzyme in complex with its lysosomal transporter LIMP-2. XPR1, a phosphate exporter ...

New research has changed the understanding of how water transports charged ions across an anion exchange membrane.

Membrane biophysics is the study of the physical principles governing biological membranes, including lipid-raft formation and protein–lipid coupling, as well as their mechanical characteristics ...

Rho GTPases form plasma membrane-associated patterns that control the cytoskeleton during cell division, morphogenesis, migration, and wound repair. Their patterning involves transitions between ...