Research collaboration: International Max-Planck Research School in Structure and Function of Biological Membranes is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its ...

Biological processes that govern our lives are many, intertwined, and often difficult to understand. They involve countless interactions happening at once—molecules recognizing each other, signals ...

The chemical reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the cell. All the things which biology recognises as indisputably alive are either cells or conglomerations of cells ...

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

Measuring membrane thickness was previously only possible in artificial membranes—now scientists can do it inside intact ...