Research led by scientists at Washington State University has revealed insights on how plants form a microscopic landscape of proteins crucial to photosynthesis, the basis of Earth’s food and energy […]
cell physiology
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Membrane-Spanning Molecular Lengths as an Agnostic Biosignature
We explore a hypothesis in which the detection of classes of lipid-like molecules with similar abundance-averaged lengths would constitute a biosignature for other worlds.
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How Membranes May Have Brought About The Chemistry Of Life On Earth
How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, […]
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Offworld Bioscience: Development of Organ-on-a-Chip System with Continuous Flow in Simulated Microgravity
Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) is an innovative microfluidic device mimicking the structure and functionality of real tissue. OOCs typically involve cell culture with microfluidics to emulate the biological forces of different organ […]
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Water Makes All The Difference
In order to fulfil their function, biological cells need to be divided into separate reaction compartments. This is sometimes done with membranes, and sometimes without them: the spontaneous segregation of […]
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Autocatalytic Reactions And The Search For Life
NASA-supported researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have written a “cookbook” of chemical recipes that could aid in the search for life beyond Earth.