Since its initial formalization nearly 20 years ago, the concept of lipid rafts has generated a
tremendous amount of attention and interest and nearly as much controversy. The …

Giant unilamellar vesicles represent a promising and extremely useful model biomembrane
system for systematic measurements of mechanical, thermodynamic, electrical, and …

Several groups have recently reported evidence for the emergence of domains in cell
plasma membranes when membrane proteins are organized by ligand binding or assembly …

This article summarizes a variety of physical mechanisms proposed in the literature, which
can generate micro-and nanodomains in multicomponent lipid bilayers and biomembranes …

Images of micrometer-scale domains in lipid bilayers have provided the gold standard of
model-free evidence to understand the domains' shapes, sizes, and distributions …

Viscosity is a key property of cell membranes that controls mobility of embedded proteins
and membrane remodeling. Measuring it is challenging because existing approaches …

Lateral organization in the plane of the plasma membrane is an important driver of biological
processes. The past dozen years have seen increasing experimental support for the notion …

Membrane viscosity is a fundamental property that controls molecular transport and
structural rearrangements in lipid membranes. Given its importance in many cell processes …

We investigate isothermal diffusion and growth of micron-scale liquid domains within
membranes of free-floating giant unilamellar vesicles with diameters between 80 and 250 …

The viscosity of lipid bilayer membranes plays an important role in determining the diffusion
constant of embedded proteins and the dynamics of membrane deformations, yet it has …