The plasma membrane (PM) is the biological membrane that separates the interior of all
cells from the outside. The PM is constituted of a huge diversity of proteins and lipids. In this …

Alginate biopolymers are characterized by favorable properties, of biocompatibility,
degradability, and non-toxicity. However, the poor stability properties of alginate have limited …

RNA nanotechnology is the bottom-up self-assembly of nanometer-scale architectures,
resembling LEGOs, composed mainly of RNA. The ideal building material should be (1) …

In the last 30 years, ceramides have been found to mediate a myriad of biological
processes. Ceramides have been recognized as bioactive molecules and their metabolizing …

Functions of the gut microbiome have a growing number of implications for host metabolic
health, with diet being one of the most significant influences on microbiome composition …

Photochromic materials have drawn increasing researchers' attention due to their excellent
reversible discoloration and brilliant physical properties. In this paper, we proposed a novel …

Chemotherapy has been reported to upregulate sphingomylinases and increase cellular
ceramide, often linked to the induction to cell death. In this work, we show that sublethal …

In the last two decades, click chemistry has become a modular synthetic procedure to
assemble new molecular structures. It is a powerful methodology that relies on the …

Capillary electrophoresis with fluorescence detection (CE-F) is a powerful method to
measure enzyme activation in single cells. However, cellular enzymatic assays used in CE-F …

Viruses are diverse pathogens that use host factors to enter cells and cause disease.
Imaging the entry and replication phases of viruses and their interactions with host factors is …