membrane
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The most successful membrane compositions likely depended on environmental conditions.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
Ras inhibitors block a small protein that sits inside the cell membrane and acts as an on/off switch, setting off a signaling cascade that can make a cell grow or divide.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Under normal conditions, these vesicles develop as the peroxisome grows and appear to remove portions of its outer membrane.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
Instead, it creates filament networks just beneath the inner membrane, forming a layer of protein polymers that resembles a cell cortex.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
We are marked as self by the chemicals we leave beneath the soles of our shoes, as unmistakably and individually as by the membrane surface antigens detectable in homografts of our tissues.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing membrane
Life Science: Cell Biology
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Florida EOC Biology 1
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STAAR Biology: Cell Structure and Function
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