A collaborative team of four professors and several graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemical Science and Technology at National Taiwan University, together with the ...

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new ...

Biologists have long treated the cell as a chemical factory, but a new wave of research is forcing a rethink of that familiar ...

Schematic of an active cell membrane. In a typical active biological process, active proteins (shown in a variety of colors) in a cell membrane (shown in blue) interact with various biological ...

Measuring membrane thickness was previously only possible in artificial membranes—now scientists can do it inside intact ...

Membranes are constantly bending as a result of heat fluctuating randomly through the cell. In theory, any voltage produced this way ought to cancel out in environments under equilibrium, making them ...

When the cell's recycling stations, the lysosomes, start leaking, it can become dangerous. Toxic waste risks spreading and ...