Self-assembly is a useful method to fabricate novel supramolecular architectures. Here, the authors use lipid-bilayer-assisted self-assembly to obtain two-dimensional crystalline DNA origami ...

For some enveloped viruses, the protein capsid assembles on the lipid membrane, driving deformation and eventually budding of the enveloped capsid. The video shows an animation of a computer ...

Research into preventing and reversing the creation of misfolded protein aggregates known as fibrils could provide new therapeutic opportunities in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

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Artificial lipid bilayers The suspended lipid membrane, also known of as the black lipid membrane (BLM), is one of the first model membrane bilayers developed to allow the electrical ...

A supported lipid bilayer is used as a chemical circuit board to carry out molecular computation with a network of nanoparticles. Nanoparticle logic operations are monitored by scattering colour ...

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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

Lipid bilayers in mammalian membranes can have a more asymmetric composition than previously thought, new research shows. This lipid abundance asymmetry is enabled by the unique properties of ...

This video shows the consecutive AFM (atomic force microscopy) height images (image size = 3µm; z-scale = 3.2nm) of the lipid bilayer captured at 0.5 f/s with 20x50 frames using TappingMode and ...

Thus, unsaturated lipids of the lipid bilayer play a critical role in the Lp-IO system to initiate intrabilayer lipid peroxidation and induce tumor cell ferroptosis.