Scientists have discovered that the internal shape of tiny drug-delivery particles—called lipid nanoparticles—has a big ...

When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years. Bedaquiline ...

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they ...

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the membrane proteins myoferlin and dysferlin using high-resolution cryo-electron ...

The pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses a membrane complex, PelBC, to produce exopolysaccharides for biofilm formation. Here the authors combine structural analysis, simulations and single ...

This study was approved by the University of Connecticut Institutional Biosafety Committee. The role of fibronectin in the invasion of INT407 cells by E. sakazakii was analyzed by pretreating the ...

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 ...

This important study presents a compelling theoretical framework for understanding phase separation of membrane-bound proteins, with a focus on the organization of tight junction components. By ...

Visitors to a centuries-old tourist site in eastern China were sent scrambling after hundreds of roof tiles came loose and cascaded more than two stories to the ground. The Fengyang Drum Tower ...

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Share on Pinterest Mitochondria structure. Illustrated by Jason Hoffman ... an outer one and an inner one. Each membrane has different functions. Mitochondria have different compartments or ...