Elizabeth Strout

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

American Author

Dimitar Sasselov

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.

Bulgarian Scientist

Paul Stamets

I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind.

American Scientist

Richard Smalley

Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

Geraldine Brooks

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

Australian Journalist

Jay Parini

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

American Writer

Yotam Ottolenghi

The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

Israeli Chef

David Shields

I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.

Nam June Paik

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

American Artist

Frans Lanting

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

Dutch Photographer

Membranes are crucial for living organisms, controlling what enters or leaves cells, like a security guard.

Biological Importance

Imagine a membrane as an ultra-thin pizza base, delicate and specifically designed to hold toppings.

Visual Metaphor

Membranes serve as dividing lines, separating spaces or substances from each other.

Boundary Descriptor

Tech membranes function like a club's bouncer, choosing what gets through and what doesn't.

Selective Barrier

Membranes are the unsung heroes in water treatment, trapping the bad stuff, letting the good stuff pass.

Critical in Purification

Remember, the use of membranes is a sign of advanced technology in different industries.

Innovation Connection

In music, the membrane's vibration is what makes the drum talk—snap, hum, or boom.

Sound Creator

Different materials for a musical membrane can change the instrument's sound character.

Material Matters

Touch lightly or hit hard; the membrane senses it all and alters the music's emotion.

Touch Sensitivity

 allowing the cells to transport it throughout the body. But they also have another kind of complex protein on the outside of the cell membrane. These proteins, known as antigens, communicate with white blood cells, immune cells that protect against infection. Antigens serve as identifying markers,

Why do blood types...

 through cooling methods like the evaporation of sweat. But with uncompensable heat stress, your body is unable to lose enough heat due to overexertion or high temperatures in humidity, which raises your core temperature beyond normal levels. This causes the proteins and cell membranes to denature,

What happens when you...

 from the smallest one-celled bacteria to the giant blue whale to you. Each cell in your body is surrounded by a cell membrane, a thick flexible layer made of fats and proteins, that surrounds and protects the inner components. It's semipermeable, meaning that it lets some thing pass in and out

Cell vs. virus: A battle...

 that are surrounded by capillaries. Together, the alveolar wall and capillaries make a two-cell thick membrane that brings blood and oxygen close enough for diffusion. These oxygen-enriched cells are then carried from the lungs through the cardiovascular network,

Oxygen’s surprisingly...

 that you can see the fungal tissue through the eye membrane. So this is a video of an ant this is a different species of ant. That's also been infected by this cordyceps fungus-- Ophiocordyceps fungus. It's in its last hour of life. It's just twitching there

Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...

 Public space. This is a good public space. It's a place worth caring about. It's well defined. It is emphatically an outdoor public room. It has something that is terribly important -- it has what's called an active and permeable membrane around the edge.

James Kunstler: How bad...

 and lies in how the brain responds when something strikes it. The brain is made of soft fatty tissue, with a consistency something like jello. Inside its protective membranes and the skull's hard casing, this delicate organ is usually well-shielded.

 multi-layered complex wing membranes would be one of the most interesting experiences an anatomist could have three different kinds of flying dragons inhabit our alien world with heads

Inside the new Old World...

 Cell membranes are structures of contradictions. These oily films are hundreds of times thinner than a strand of spider silk, yet strong enough to protect the delicate contents of

Cell membranes are way...

 it floats with the help of a gas-filled bladder topped by a vertical membrane with that serving as a sail it maintains