The tension of cell membranes (which are made of lipid bilayers) plays an important role in a host of biological processes, such as cell motility, endocytosis and cell division, but measuring this ...

The continuing advances in semiconductor functionality, density, and chip-level integration are generating new challenges in accessing devices for test and controlling the physical and electrical ...

Chemists report a new fluorescent probe that glows only when bound to a membrane protein of interest (ACS Chem. Biol. 2014, DOI: 10.1021/cb400819c). The labeling method could help researchers track ...

In normal cells, phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidyl-ethanolamine (PE) residues are found in the inner membrane of the cytoplasmic membrane. During apoptosis, the PS and PE residues are ...

A nanometer-scale probe designed to slip into a cell wall and fuse with it could offer researchers a portal for extended eavesdropping on the inner electrical activity of individual cells. Everything ...

Maciej J. Stawikowski, Ph.D., senior author and an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. “It’s well known that lipids and Alzheimer’s are ...

Using properties of light from fluorescent probes is at the heart of a new imaging technique that allows for an unprecedented look inside cell membranes. For those not involved in chemistry or biology ...

Cell membrane coated biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely studied in nanomedicine because of their unique properties such as immune escaping, long blood circulation, specific molecular ...