Cell death is rarely a tidy affair, but a newly proposed framework argues that one recently identified form of lytic cell ...

The Intracellular Quality Control Project at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science has identified a molecular ...

Scientists have uncovered new details about how cells manage the distribution of lipids in their cell membrane. These lipids, known as phospholipids, are arranged in a bilayer of membranes, regulating ...

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 ...

In the crowded interior of a bacterial cell, location can be everything. A new study of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa reveals that a short molecular tether anchoring the cell’s m ...