Transport of molecules within a cell and out of the cell requires a complex endomembrane system. Endocytosis occurs when the cell membrane engulfs particles (dark blue) outside the cell, draws the ...

Researchers at New York University and the University of Chicago have developed artificial, fully synthetic cell-like structures that autonomously ingest, process, and push out material, recreating an ...

The plasma membrane is what isolates the cell’s interior from its surroundings. It is made up of a lipid bilayer and other macromolecules, such as carbohydrates, glycoproteins, and membrane proteins, ...

B. Eftekharzadeh et al., “Tau protein disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport in Alzheimer’s disease,” Neuron, 99:925–40.e7, 2018. Dotted along the edges of neuronal cells’ nuclei are protein complexes ...