Considering their ubiquity, it seems safe to predict that ion channel mutations will be found to be involved in many diseases. The evolution of the lipid cell membrane solved one problem and ...

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese researchers have developed a new type of membrane to extract uranium from seawater or salt lake water, shedding light on wastewater treatment and rare ...

Electron microscopy images reveal crucial structures and mechanisms within the molecular machinery that certain bacteria use ...

When speaking of motors, most people think of those powering vehicles and human machinery. However, biological motors have ...

This work presents a membrane-targeted azobenzene (MT) as light-responsive tool for cell stimulation. MT photoisomerization ...

Researchers use cryo-electron microscopy to reveal how sodium ions power bacterial flagellar motors, providing insights for ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers uncovered how sodium ions drive bacterial flagellar motors, revealing key ...

Harpreet Singh, professor of physiology and cell biology ... last hundred years that ion channels are really, really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said.

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and researchers from University of Tokyo, Nagoya ...

The membrane was positioned in a flow cell formed on a chip and solutions ... which reflected the transport of ions through the pore. The ionic current was sensitive to the ions in the solutions ...