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  • noun Plural form of bilayer.

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  • It might be something as simple as the right amino acid bath in the presence of polyphosphates and self-assembled phospholipid bilayers.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • It might be something as simple as the right amino acid bath in the presence of polyphosphates and self-assembled phospholipid bilayers.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • Edit yeah, phospholipids smooshed through the right sized holes will spontaneously form phospholipid bilayers. standard biophysics or biology technique. did it when i was studying single-molecule proteins with FRET.

    Pay No Attention to The Establishment Behind The Curtain! - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • This allows such ice crystals to grow through lipid bilayers without any thermodynamic exclusion.

    Archive 2004-09-01 2004

  • Polar molecules and charged ions are dissolved in water but they can not diffuse freely across cell membranes due to the hydrophobic nature of the lipids that make up the lipid bilayers.

    WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010

  • Polar molecules and charged ions are dissolved in water but they can not diffuse freely across cell membranes due to the hydrophobic nature of the lipids that make up the lipid bilayers.

    WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010

  • The duo say this work provides a launching pad for building a nanowire-based atomic force microscopes that could be used to study biological cells and model cellular components such as vesicles or bilayers.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The duo say this work provides a launching pad for building a nanowire-based atomic force microscopes that could be used to study biological cells and model cellular components such as vesicles or bilayers.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The technique has the potential to model whole cells and tissues with sufficient resolution to differentiate lipid bilayers.

    News 2010

  • Single-Molecule Biophysics research group has developed a set of tools to perform single-molecule fluorescence imaging in supported lipid bilayers and is planning to expand these methods to study the behavior of transmembrane proteins.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

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