Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

In every living cell, there are membranes—and in every membrane there are proteins, each of which acts as a chemical gatekeeper. Rather than passively letting ions pass in and out of the cell, these ...

Membrane proteins and membrane lipids are essential partners in various biological processes, and elucidating their ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity-from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

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 ...

As freshwater shortages worsen around the world, desalination—turning seawater into drinkable water—is becoming increasingly ...