Millions of people worldwide suffer from hydrocephalus, or a buildup of excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and which ...

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have created the world's simplest artificial cell capable ...

Scientists have developed a membrane that can be tuned to selectively enhance or suppress ion flow, mimicking how living ...

In every living cell, there are membranes, and in every membrane there are proteins, each of which acts as a chemical ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Northwestern University have turned ...

Researchers have successfully built the simplest artificial cell ever that can navigate using chemicals, much like living cells do. Chemotaxis is the essential navigation system cells use to find ...

For the 300,000 Americans living with the immune disease scleroderma, better treatments can't come soon enough. The rare and ...

Excitability is a property of a cell, allowing it to respond to stimulation by rapid changes in membrane potential produced by ion fluxes across the plasma membrane. This is most commonly ...