About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

The walls of the living cell consist partly of the fatty substances called phospholipids. It appears that some of these substances play an active role in the transport of other substances across ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how intercellular "glue" functions to enable ...

A new study from the University of California San Diego has potentially unlocked one of life's greatest mysteries: how the first cell membranes formed on Earth billions of years ago. The research ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Cincinnati achieved a ...

Human extracellular matrices can be edited in their composition using the CRISPR/Cas9 system, leading to materials exhibiting tailored regenerative capacities.

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to specialized structures called junctions. They ensure cell cohesion and regulate ...

The macromolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes within the thylakoids of higher plant chloroplasts has been a topic of significant debate. Using in situ cryo-electron tomography, this ...