Researchers will discuss a new mass photometry method that characterizes molecules in their native state on supported lipid bilayers.

A new mammalian display platform enhances antibody discovery for challenging protein targets.

A pathogenic amoeba species ingests parts of human cells and steals human cell membrane proteins to display on its own surface.

The functions of the cellular invaginations identified more than half a century ago are now beginning to be understood in detail.

Researchers interrogate the cavernous structures on the surface of cells to better understand how they affect membrane function.

With multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.

Scientists have discovered a mechanism by which the Rift Valley fever virus infects the cells of its hosts.

Applying physics, chemistry, and cell biology, Satyajit Mayor seeks to understand how cell membranes work.

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

Scientists have determined the crystal structures of bacterial translocator proteins, but their functions remain unclear.

A little-studied protein appears to be a critical part of the perplexing channel that prevents cells from bursting.

Matching up positive and negative charges on two of its subunits may allow the TatA membrane transporter to penetrate the lipid bilayer.

Researchers have created a molecule that helps nanoparticles evade immune attack and could improve drug delivery.
 

MicroRNAs from plants accumulate in mammalian blood and tissues, where they can regulate gene expression.

Heat-sensing protein channels in vampire bats allow the flying mammals to find the best place to sink their teeth into their prey.

New types of biological filaments are turning up in yeast, fly, bacterial cells and in rat neurons, and they may yield clues to how the cytoskeleton evolved from metabolically active enzymes.

An account of the path to realizing tools for controlling brain circuits with light.

The optogenetic toolset is composed of genetically encoded molecules that, when targeted to specific neurons in the brain, enable the electrical activity of those neurons to be driven or silenced by light. 

“This is my trophy,” says biologist Michael Edidin, walking across his office at Johns Hopkins University to pick up two oversized clock hands, once part of the stately clock tower that still stands on the Baltimore campus. 

Take a tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), whose ultra-powerful X-ray beam is being used to solve the structures of proteins that are notoriously hard to crystallize.