A team has clarified how in plants the boric acid channels, the conduits for the necessary element boron, are transported to the plasma membrane. Botanists have come to understand the channels and ...

What if you found out that pieces of your front door were occasionally flying off the door frame to carry out chores around the house? That's the kind of surprise scientists at the Salk Institute ...

Membrane protein transport and quality control are central to yeast cell homeostasis, ensuring that proteins reach their correct cellular destinations while aberrant or damaged proteins are ...

Researchers have developed a theoretical framework that shows how living cell membranes can generate electricity from ...

This illustration shows how the membrane trafficking protein VAMP72 gradually changed during plant evolution to give rise to VAMP727, which functions in transporting storage proteins to vacuoles. The ...

Study finds ultrathin tubes connecting brain cells that transport Alzheimer's proteins. The network changes months before ...

Cells may generate their own electrical signals through microscopic membrane motions. Researchers show that active molecular ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which the kidney precisely controls calcium excretion. The ...

No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that direction: ...

New technique to image single lipids: Lipids are notoriously difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, the Dresden team has overcome this limitation, enabling ...

Like workers at a factory or office, proteins in a cell must be in the right department to do their jobs. But scientists have ...