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membrane

[mem-brayn] / ˈmɛm breɪn /
NOUN
covering layer
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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

The MAL gene produces a small membrane protein called Mal.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 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

To test whether diamond could behave differently under extreme mechanical conditions, the HKU team used a recently developed edge exfoliation method to produce an ultrathin, flexible polycrystalline diamond membrane.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Meningitis is an infection and swelling of the fluid and membranes around the brain and spinal cord, according to the Mayo Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

In the morning, Popo would use her sharp fingernails like tweezers and peel off the dead membranes.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan




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