A new life-saving intervention under development could be taken easily wherever it’s most needed, like the battlefield, in ...

Membrane proteins are key targets for many drugs. They are located between the outside and inside of our cells. Some of them, called 'transporters', move certain substances in and out of the cellular ...

When human cells lack oxygen, they must react. Without oxygen, the metabolism can hardly generate energy, and many vital ...

There are many kinds of T cells, and they play different parts in defending the body. Some T cells kill infected cells, ...

New technique to image single lipids: Lipids are notoriously difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, the Dresden team has overcome this limitation, enabling ...

Biophysicists have designed a new cell-like transport system that represents an important milestone on the road to artificial cells. Creating artificial cells with life-like characteristics out of a ...

Researchers from the SNI network have discovered a novel way to fuse lipid vesicles at neutral pH. By harnessing a fragment ...

Researchers from Wuhan University of Technology and Central South University, Changsha in China, have fabricated an ultra-thin organic solar cell with a bilayer hole transport layer (HTL) and a ...

Proteins are often called the building blocks of cells, but even those building blocks need to be built. One of the most ...