The cell wall surrounds the plasma membrane and provides the cell tensile strength and protection. Plant cells have some specialized properties that make them distinct from animal cells.

Thereafter, the idea of a lipid bilayer became the basis for future models of membrane structure. (Sadava 1993). When the use of electron microscopy started to allow examination of the plasma ...

“In science, structure is function,” says Lippincott-Schwartz ... In muscle cells, the ER and the plasma membrane – the outer ...

New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received at specific sites on dendrites to the decision-making cell body located ...