The protein, apolipoprotein L3, destroys invading microbes by acting as a detergent in the cytosol.

Simoni spent more than four decades at Stanford University as a teacher, researcher, and administrator in the university’s biology department.

The cholesterol-lowering drugs quell inflammation and reverse endothelial tissue damage, hints that they might curb the body’s excessive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The Nobel laureate was the first to identify an enzyme moving material across the cell membrane.

Profilee Satyajit Mayor discusses his explorations of cell membranes, which are helping to update the classical fluid mosaic model of dynamic cellular boundaries.