A microfluidic nanoblade device that slices open the membranes of thousands of cells at once reveals that cells prioritize repairing the nuclear envelope over the plasma membrane after extreme ...

Cholesterol is one of the most famous molecules in medicine, blamed for heart attacks and clogged arteries, yet it is also an ...

A Massive Chemical Factory That Processes Blood and Produces BileThe liver is the largest gland in the human body and is an ...

The process of iron transport across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) includes two transmembrane steps: step 1, iron in circulating blood first passes through the luminal membrane (blood side) of BBB ...

Power Shift is Ellyn Lapointe’s ongoing Gizmodo series that explores advancements in green technology, with a focus on renewable energy, grid modernization, and emissions reduction. Cement, the key ...

As she watched the pale yellow liquid drip into her mother’s vein, Ge Lan felt the weight of every drop. Her mother, recovering from stomach cancer surgery, relied on daily infusions of human albumin ...

The sun routinely blasts charged particles into space, but similar outbursts from other stars have been mysteriously hard to spot. A new experiment suggests that the strong magnetic fields of some ...

The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century. For decades, scientists had theorized ...

Mechanosensation enables cells to detect physical forces, including membrane stretch, pressure, shear stress, and osmotic stress, and to convert them into biochemical and electrical signals that ...

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