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17 November 2025
Boundary Settings
Cells have organs too – with the fittingly diminutive title: organelles – each with a specific structure and function. Bounding the organelles are membranes composed of fatty sheets, a lipid bilayer. With cryo-ET (electron tomography), a high-resolution imaging technique to 'see' cells' inner features, this study reveals membrane thickness varies among organelles and provides a means to analyse how this affects their function
Read the published research article here
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- Video from work by Desislava Glushkova, Stefanie Böhm and Martin Beck
- Department of Molecular Sociology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Journal of Cell Biology, November 2025
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