The course for Sciences de la Matière Master 1 students will start on January 10th. Register for great discussions by Sébastien Manneville and myself on the fondamental concepts that lead things put themselves together. A course for Chemists, Physicists and Biologists.
Electric fields open pores in bio-membranes. But do we know why?
We thought, at the beginning of the project just reported in PNAS, that we did know. And then our data showed us that we didn’t. As extensively commented by several outlets. Even in French.
Hydroperoxidized lipid membranes are softer – we knew that – but who would have guessed that they are more viscous?
In an effort just published in Communications Chemistry, combining experiments and numerical simulations, we teamed up with Marina Kuimova group at the Imperial College and her colleagues to study the unusual dynamic behaviour of lipid bilayers assembled from hydroperoxidized POPC.