A plasma membrane is permeable to specific molecules that a cell needs. Transport proteins in the cell membrane allow for selective passage of specific molecules from the external environment.

In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have developed a novel method for artificial cells to interact with their ...

University of Tennessee assistant Professor Amit Joshi and an international team published new research in Science on the ...

The ability to maintain concentration gradients and sometimes move materials against them is vital to cell health and maintenance. Thanks to membrane barriers and transport proteins, the cell can ...

This takes place when molecules diffuse across the cell membrane by travelling through specific transport proteins. It occurs down a concentration gradient - molecules move from an area of high to ...

The Membrane Transport Biology group are interested in the relationship ... we aim to integrate the function of these proteins into the cell biological system.

Most drugs target membrane proteins, accessible on the surface of cells, to alter the transport of ions and molecules and the transduction of cellular signals. The Diver lab explores the biological ...

Transport across membranes All cells are enclosed by a cell membrane, which is selectively ... DNA and the production of proteins DNA carries the genetic information in the cells of all living ...

The study results, published June 5 in The EMBO Journal, shed new light, researchers say, on the way the altered mitochondrial membranes found in people with metabolic diseases such as Barth ...