A key experiment using the Langmuir trough provided the basis for accepting that the membrane is a bilayer and laid the groundwork for the current model of membrane structure. First, cells are ...

Charged nanoparticles can alter the local physical properties of lipid membranes ... which is a flexible rod-like molecule, did not induce this effect. The Illinois team suggests that the rigid ...

The Max Planck-NCBS Center on Lipid Research will be led by the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden ... analyses of biological membranes and the genetic analyses of ...

For some enveloped viruses, the protein capsid assembles on the lipid membrane, driving deformation and eventually budding of the enveloped capsid. The video shows an animation of a computer ...

A crucial molecule for brain health acts as a garbage collector of other fat molecules (lipids), despite also being a lipid itself. So for more than half a century, researchers have puzzled over ...

BMP happens to be an oddly left-handed molecule among right-handed fats. "Everything in lipid biochemistry starts from one ...

Similarly, in the cell model of the ... a fatty compound, or lipid, and proteins that transport the building blocks of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, an energy molecule made by the mitochondria ...