Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...
Lipids are essential components of cellular membranes, contributing to the basic structure and function. The most common lipids in membranes are phospholipids, which form a bilayer with hydrophilic ...
Collaboration between researchers at the University of Geneva, Institut de biologie structurale de Grenoble, and the University of Fribourg has shown how lipids and proteins in cell membranes react in ...
A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began. How life arose remains a looming question ...
Cells have always hummed with activity. They make their own energy, package it into molecules like ATP, and spend it ...
Human bodies are usually described as chemical engines, powered by glucose and oxygen. Yet a wave of new research suggests ...
The chemical reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the cell. All the things which biology recognises as indisputably alive are either cells or conglomerations of cells ...
Transverse tubules (T-tubules) play a significant role in muscle contraction. However, the underlying mechanism of their ...