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The toxin appears to be an exceptionally small protein that inserts itself into the bacterium's surrounding cell membrane.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The device consists of a two-layer open microfluidic membrane equipped with a removable cap and an array of tiny pillars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

In those settings, the beading can accompany damage to the cell membrane and the internal framework that helps maintain the axon's structure.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 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

A sharp egg tooth on the top of its beak pierced the inner membrane, and its nostrils pushed into the pocket of air at the top of the egg.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

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

Instead, larvae can enter wounds or mucous membranes, where they must be removed quickly to limit further damage to the surrounding tissue.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The DNA of mitochondria is qualitatively different from the DNA of animal cell nuclei and strikingly similar to bacterial DNA; moreover, like microbial DNA, it is closely associated with membranes.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas