Janice L Robertson with Rahul Chadda (middle), Kacey Mersch (right), and the team's TIRF microscope Progress in understanding the lipid bilayer – an ingenious two-molecule thick oily barrier that ...

Our remarkable ability to perform complex tasks—such as thinking, observing, and touch—stems from proteins, the tiny nanometer-sized molecules in the body. Despite decades of research, our ...

In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cell membranes -- the sacs encompassing the body's living matter -- can assume a variety of shapes as they morph to engulf materials, expel others and assemble themselves into tissues.

The outcome is a three-dimensional image of the cell's plasma membrane arrangement, complete with perspectives of the barrier inside. By creating a very precise platinum-carbon duplicate of the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The dynamics of chemical reactions central to energy innovations unfold at nanometer lengths - a scale too small to directly witness in atomistic detail, obscured by limitations ...