Thermophoresis for the energy supply of early cells. NIM scientist Dr Christof Mast and his team suggest thermally driven formation of pH gradients and proton flux as source of chemical energy ...

(Phys.org) —The ability to make measurements of the biomolecular interactions that occur inside living cells is essential for understanding complex biological processes. But probing the inside of ...

It was thought that immune cells are guided through tissues along gradients of chemokines, which are a class of proteins secreted by cells and known to guide the movement of cells during embryonic ...