We are taught that plasma membranes are a typical lipid bilayer, but how do we know this, and who figured it out? Aa Aa Aa Most books mention that membranes have a typical "lipid bilayer," but why ...

But the Levental Laboratory of Membrane Biology in Virginia, U.S., and the Doktorova Cell Membrane Biophysics Lab at Stockholm University, in Sweden, discovered that this assumption is—in their ...

Cell membranes protect and organize cells. All cells have an outer plasma membrane that regulates not only what enters the cell, but also how much of any given substance comes in. Unlike ...

“This region sits right at the lipid bilayer—or membrane—on the HIV cells,” says first author Colleen Maillie, a joint PhD candidate in the labs of Mravic and Andrew Ward, who was a ...

Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain. Viruses have an outer protein shell called a capsid which surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an ...

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

The duplication and division of cells is critical to keeping all multicellular organisms alive. But the opposite process is equally important: cell death.

In contrast to organelles with a lipid bilayer membrane, membraneless structures are formed through a process known as liquid-liquid phase separation. When it comes to how and why cells create and use ...