'membranes' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the thin layers of tissue that enclose and protect certain organs or body parts. For example, "The doctor suggested removing the infected membranes around the baby's lungs."
Cut out the segments between the membranes, and put in a large bowl.
With Völler standing there stoically pondering the injustice of it all, Rijkaard was lurking in the background, studiously clearing his mucous membranes by hoiking up the mother of all grollies.
A shortage of these could stifle the development of better catalysts for biofuels, lightweight alloys for cars and planes, and synthetic membranes that replicate photosynthesis.This diversity of demand inevitably means some materials have to come from abroad.
When the team mixed their new membranes with cholera toxin, the interference pattern behaved precisely as predicted.
They then carried out similar tests using natural membranes and proteins.
The gaps in commercially available membranes for reverse osmosis are about half a nanometre across (a nanometre being a billionth of a metre).
To test their new technique, Dr Bornhop and his colleagues made synthetic membranes containing a small protein called GM1.
Why Alzheimer's should reduce phospholipid levels in the blood is unclear, but those levels might easily reflect problems in the membranes of the affected brain cells.An interesting result, then, which as is true of a lot of science might or might not go on to become important.
They are all phospholipids, which are components of cell membranes.
CJD and a handful of similar neurological conditions are caused by the misfolding of a particular protein that is found in the membranes of certain nerve cells.
Beyond the nuclear membrane, in the part of the cell called its cytoplasm, is an array of specialised organelles such as mitochondria (which generate energy) and chloroplasts (which photosynthesise), and also further membranes, known as the endoplasmic reticulum, that carry out a range of tasks from making proteins to disposing of waste.
