A nasal spray containing vesicles naturally released by cells may work against Alzheimer's. This is the promise of a study ...

Solute carriers (SLCs) are specialized transport proteins that control the movement of nutrients, ions and neurotransmitters across cell membranes and are essential for brain metabolism and neuronal ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

Gram-negative bacteria are responsible for several infections that are hard to treat because of their high resistance to ...

A comprehensive review of solute carrier transporters argues that the 464-strong SLC protein family represents a largely ...

Scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and St. Jude Children's ...

SLCs act as both gatekeepers and workhorses at cell membranes. They determine what enters the cell and when: sugars that provide energy, amino acids ...

This Collection focuses on the mechanistic aspects of membrane carriers and current advances in the biochemical and biophysical characterizations in this field, as well presenting new research tools ...

A new study in Science Advances answers a longstanding question about how skeletal muscle architecture is carefully regulated ...

Basic biology courses teach that cells contain organelles—such as the nucleus, mitochondria and Golgi apparatus—set apart by lipid membranes to get things done. Recent cell biology research has ...

A cell can suddenly form a large rounded pocket on its surface, as if its membrane were swelling locally. Researchers at RIKEN have reproduced this behavior in highly simplified artificial cells. The ...

A study in budding yeast suggests that changes in membrane lipids trigger a braking system that slows internal protein ...