Extracellular vesicles (EVs) could serve as outstanding drug delivery vehicles. Their low toxicity and low immunogenicity would make them useful in sustained treatment or redosing scenarios. But there ...

The membrane that encases a biological cell is not simply a barrier; it is chock full of proteins involved in all sorts of critical biological functions. To really understand what membrane proteins ...

Membrane proteins are crucial for numerous biological processes and serve as important drug targets. For decades, scientists have relied on detergents to extract membrane proteins from cell membranes ...

Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the cell, transmitting signals, speeding up reactions and helping neighboring ...

Imran Khan, Regina Gratz, Polina Denezhkin, Stephan N. Schott-Verdugo, Kalina Angrand, Lara Genders, Rubek Merina Basgaran, Claudia Fink-Straube, Tzvetina Brumbarova, Holger Gohlke, Petra Bauer and ...

Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has ...