"We know that endothelial cells frequently experience membrane damage caused by changes ... and observed their repair in real-time under the microscope," explains Dr. Nikita Raj, the study's ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

the cell membrane, every day and have to repair them again. Researchers at the University of Münster have now identified the processes that enable the precise closure of such membrane injuries.

These include some obvious mechanical activities such as endocytosis, cell motility and membrane resealing, but also others, such as replication and transcription. Taking the motor proteins as an ...

These microbial liposomes are called membrane vesicles (MVs) or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), particularly ... For fluorescence microscopy analysis, the cells were examined using the fluorescence ...

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural ...

It also reminds us that there’s sometimes some truth to be found in our old sayings, as Lippincott-Schwartz pointed out: “Einstein said that when he uses his brain, it is like he is using a muscle, ...

The diagram below shows the same plant cell, as viewed with the light microscope ... such as photosynthesis and respiration. Cell membrane Allows gases and water to diffuse freely into and ...

Cancer cells team up to scavenge for nutrients, reveals new research. The discovery that cancer cells cooperate to survive ...

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