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Its genetic instructions included a secretion signal that directs the enzyme outside the cell, along with a lipid anchor that holds it firmly to the cell membrane.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Removing it made the membrane less stiff and more fluid.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

To explain the pattern, the researchers built mathematical models of the membrane surrounding an axon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 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

But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The oldest resurrected antimicrobial peptides were able to disrupt bacterial membranes, but the bacteria apparently repaired the damage and survived exposure to the peptides.

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

In the future, piezoelectric diamond membranes could potentially be used in implantable medical devices as self-generating power sources or as sensors that detect bending and deformation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Underneath, the white bones revolved in the edthes of the water, the heavy ones lying still and the airy membranes lifting gracefully, like leaves in an autumn wind.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White