A Scripps team has adapted advanced imaging and computation to measure cell membrane thickness inside intact animal and yeast ...

A collaborative team of four professors and several graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemical ...

Biological processes that govern our lives are many, intertwined, and often difficult to understand. They involve countless ...

Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has ...

Cancer cells have softer membranes than healthy cells. New nanoparticles exploit this physical difference to fuse selectively ...

Cells may generate their own electrical signals through microscopic membrane motions. Researchers show that active molecular processes can create voltage spikes similar to those used by neurons. These ...

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic ...

Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell through blood vessels and bodily fluids: special proteins that keep their ...