When I was in elementary school, plastic models (or plamodel in short) of Mobile Suit Gundam were extremely popular. I loved Gundam myself. During my last few years of elementary school, I often drew ...

Schematic of an active cell membrane. In a typical active biological process, active proteins (shown in a variety of colors) in a cell membrane (shown in blue) interact with various biological ...

We established that Onsager’s principle of reciprocity is violated for the cell model of an ion–exchange membrane —the coupled cross kinetic coefficients are not equal. It is crucial when considering ...

Scientists have long known that cellular membranes vary in thickness, but measuring those differences inside actual cells has been out of reach. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

The behaviour of a receptor protein can be influenced by the presence of certain lipids in the membrane it is embedded in.