All cells have an outer plasma membrane that regulates not ... Scientists who model membrane structure and dynamics describe the membrane as a fluid mosaic in which transmembrane proteins can ...

The basic behavior of ... The first clues to lipid bilayer structure came from results with red blood cell membranes. The ultimate discovery that the plasma membrane is a lipid bilayer with ...

As the researchers report June 12 in Nature, contacts between a prominent inner structure in cells, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and the inside of the cells' plasma membrane (PM) are larger and ...