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, ...

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.

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

In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have developed a novel method for artificial cells to interact with their ...

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 ...

Researchers led by Uljana Kravčenko and her colleagues in the lab of Professor Misha Kudryashev, Group Leader of the In Situ ...

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

Membrane trafficking is the process by which ... Here the authors use cryo-electron microscopy and functional experiments to reveal how Rab6 is activated by the Ric1-Rgp1 complex.