Aug 05, 2016: Making artificial cells like soap bubbles (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Tokyo used MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) technology to produce spherical vesicles ...

Our cells are surrounded by a fragile membrane that's only 5 nanometers thick, 1/20 of a soap bubble. Cells are easily damaged by physiological activities, including muscle contraction and tissue ...

Our cells are surrounded by a fragile membrane that's only 5 nanometers thick, 1/20 of a soap bubble. Cells are easily damaged by physiological activities, including muscle contraction and tissue ...

This is really cool: Big brains at MIT recently announced they have created the world’s thinnest and lightest solar cell—so light it can sit atop a soap bubble without breaking it.

Shine a beam of light through a soap bubble and it could behave in an unexpected way. ... “It was a complete surprise in the lab.” The soap membrane had random variations in its thickness, ...

Dr. Paumet's team—led by first author Christine Linton, a Ph.D. student in the lab—used microscopy tools to analyze genetically-modified chlamydia as they underwent membrane fusion.

The virus is enveloped in a bubble of oily lipid molecules, which falls apart on contact with soap. ACE2. ... The virus infects the cell by fusing its oily membrane with the membrane of the cell.

ETH Zurich researchers show how under ultrasound, microbubbles gas-filled bubbles generate liquid jets that penetrate cell membrane like tiny pinpricks. The dynamics of jets is governed by a ...