Smallest archaeal genome ever recorded: Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, found in Pacific Ocean plankton, encodes only 189 proteins -- fewer than many viruses -- but retains its own ribosomes, qualifying it ...

Cell death is rarely a tidy affair, but a newly proposed framework argues that one recently identified form of lytic cell ...

Super-resolution imaging and mathematical modelling show that clathrin-mediated endocytosis sorts lipids only weakly, with ...

Oxidized lipids—fats structurally altered by enzymes, oxygen or free radicals—are double-edged swords that can both quell and ...

It has been discovered that the chain length of lipids that make up cell membranes increases with age, a phenomenon common to ...

Researchers at Juntendo University have uncover a lipid signaling pathway that helps epithelial cells respond to membrane injury. Bacterial toxins can create pores in epithelial cell membranes, ...

An autoinhibitory domain in the C-terminal tail of TMEM63B, a mechanosensitive lipid scramblase, helps maintain its inactive state under resting ...

To sense their environment and respond accordingly, cells enlist membrane proteins as communication hubs, receiving molecular ...

Researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University have resolved a long-standing neurobiology puzzle: how the central nervous system gauges axon diameter to control myelin sheath length. The study reveals ...

The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2027 Society Awards. These awards are very competitive in nature and are intended to recognize Society members for excellence in ...

A group of innate immune cells, known as group 2 lymphoid cells (ILC2), are essential for maintaining a stable metabolism in adipose tissue. Obesity significantly impairs the number and function of ...

An autoinhibitory domain in the C-terminal tail of the TMEM63B, a mechanosensitive lipid scramblase, helps maintain its inactive state under resting ...