The potential to isolate and regulate the biodynamics of single cells is significant in drug design and screening. However, pre-existing experimental reports in single-cell drug screening must yet ...

As the gradient decays, the position of this threshold value moves at varying speed along the membrane, depending on the cell shape. Thus, via this hierarchy of protein concentration profiles, the ...

Scientists designed autonomous nanovesicles capable of following glucose concentration gradients, even through the blood brain barrier in rats. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...

Active transport is a process that is required to move molecules against a concentration gradient. The process requires energy. For plants to take up mineral ions, ions are moved into root hairs, ...

Biophysicists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in München have developed a new theory, which accounts for the observation that cells can perceive their own shapes, and use this information to ...