Cell Membrane Quotes

There are many cells you could look at forever in 3D.

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.

A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important for life in a membrane, isolated from the rest of the environment, but yet, in an environment in which they actually could originate together.

A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.

Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.