This work shows that, depending on conditions, small membrane regions can stabilize various lipids to trigger specific cellular responses. These discoveries, published in the journal Nature, confirm ...

A new phase-transformable membrane could revolutionize CO2 capture and gas separation, boosting clean energy efforts.

Industrial gas separation, essential for clean energy and environmental protection, demands efficiency and adaptability.

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Newly discovered mechanism helps detach and recycle parts of cellular canal membranes as needed – models developed using ...

Inside cells, there exists an extensive system of canals known as the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which consists of membrane-encased tubes that are partially broken down as needed -- for instance in ...

Over the years, chemical biology methods have made an important contribution to the study of integral membrane proteins. A ...

Researchers at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS) at Kyoto University and the Department of ...