The brain is a unique place. It is shielded from much of the body by the blood-brain barrier, meaning it's protected from ...

Bioengineering assistant professor Girgis Obaid at the University of Texas at Dallas and cancer researcher Rolf Brekken at UT ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are ...

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? These processes involve synaptic transmission, in which chemical signals are transmitted between nerve cells using molecular containers called vesicles. Now, ...

This fundamental study combines in vitro reconstitution experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate how membrane lipids are transported from the outer to the inner membrane of ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Scientists have long wondered how life first began on Earth. While we don’t have all the answers, one thing is clear: every ...

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.

State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Frontiers Science Center for Smart Materials Oriented Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, No. 2 Linggong Road, Dalian 116024, China Key ...