Laser Untangles Membrane Measurements, Vanderbilt University Study

Futurity -- VANDERBILT (US) — A new laser technique that can measure interactions between proteins tangled in a cell’s membrane is expected to help in the discovery of new drugs. About 30 percent of the 7,000 proteins in a human cell reside in its membrane, initiating 60 to 70 percent of the signals that control the operation of its molecular machinery.