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The synovium is the thin membrane lining joints that produces lubricating fluid and can become severely inflamed in rheumatoid arthritis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The study, published in Nature Cell Biology, is titled "Leucine inhibits degradation of outer mitochondrial membrane proteins to adapt mitochondrial respiration."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Watanabe and Griswold joined forces with theoretical biophysicist Padmini Rangamani, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, to investigate how the surrounding membrane might shape the axon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Alongside the pearled axons, they found evidence of ultrafast endocytosis, a process through which nerve endings quickly retrieve membrane after releasing chemical messages.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The sail heals like a membrane, until all that remains is a faint scar where the tear had been, a slightly deeper beige than the rest of the canvas sail.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Scientists also need to explain how enough RNA molecules could have gathered in the same place to interact before cell membranes existed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

It contains an antimicrobial peptide capable of damaging bacterial membranes, creating holes that can rupture the cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Think mushroom leather, spider-silk filaments, membranes of algae.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

In the 1980s, freezes ruptured oranges’ cell membranes and turned new growth black.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The rainwater would seep down gently and the delicate membranes would not be crushed or broken before the emergence of tiny fingers, roots, and leaves pressing out in all directions.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko