Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Lipid/cholesterol mixtures derived from cell membranes as well as their synthetic reconstitutions exhibit ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of ...

Findings show that LPD-3 contains an internal tunnel lined with lipid molecules, suggesting a possible mechanism for large-scale lipid movement between cellular membranes. Cells must constantly ...