Membrane contact sites (MCSs) are specialized regions where the membranes of different organelles come into close proximity, but without actual contacts, ...

Prof. Mike Chan has been a pioneer of Cellular, Organo, and Cell Membrane Therapies in Europe and Asia since the early 1980s. He founded one of the world's largest research groups of Bio-Molecular ...

Cytoskeleton rearrangements promote formation of a giant structure called a GUVac that stops cells from dying when they become detached from the extracellular matrix.

Scientists are uncovering new insights into the mechanisms driving neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). These fatal diseases ...

Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiont | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis—a process by which one organism engulfed ...

Researchers from the Structural Biology Brussels group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have uncovered a significant ...

Cells, the building blocks of our body, contain organelles—small structures performing crucial functions. Until recently, it was believed that organelles were always surrounded by a protective ...

Membrane trafficking is the process by ... Rab6 is a key regulator of the Golgi apparatus, the central sorting organelle of eukaryotic cells. Here the authors use cryo-electron microscopy and ...

"But having both a bilayer-forming lipid, which provides the basic structure for the cell membrane, and a non-bilayer-forming lipid, such as cholesterol, which adds stability, seems to be a ...