Cell membranes play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity ... and the University of Fribourg (UNIFR), have used cryo-electron microscopy to observe how lipids and proteins at the plasma membrane ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that axons, brain cell extensions, are tube-like, revealing instead a "pearl-on-a ...

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals the structural basis for the restriction of hepatitis B virus (HBV) entry in macaques, ...

Lipids, or fats, are essential to life. They form the membranes around cells, protecting them from the outside. In nature, ...

Axons in brain cells resemble a string of pearls rather than smooth tubes, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. This ...

Membrane proteins are proteins found in cell membranes ... The authors show cryo-electron microscopy structures of the human high-affinity sodium–dicarboxylate cotransporter, responsible ...

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, ...

Palade's genius, however, was his masterful combination of electron microscopy with cell ... of the different membrane-bound compartments of the cell that constitute the secretory apparatus.

Researchers have used cryo-electron tomography to uncover new details of the molecular structure of synaptic vesicles, which help transport neurotransmitters in the brain. The study could inform ...

“Understanding the structure of axons is important for understanding brain cell signaling,” says Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D., ...

In a study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit electrical signals from cell to cell ...

The lab of Hassane Mchaourab, director of the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Protein Dynamics and professor of ...