Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than ...

How large, fully folded proteins can pass through cell membranes without destroying them has long been one of the open ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

University of Cincinnati structural biologists are the first in the world to visualize a key cell protein as part of newly published research from the College of Medicine. The Seegar Lab has become ...

The subcellular localization of a protein is important for its function and interaction with other molecules; its mislocalization is directly associated with various diseases 1,2,3. In fact, a large ...

Within aging organisms, cells slowly lose their youthful precision: Membranes stiffen, repair systems malfunction, and proteins begin to misfold and pile up. One of the cell organelles that ...

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and collaborators have discovered a key process in how the outer membrane of gram ...