This collective osmotic shock of the material would be an innovative method for the creation of bicontinuous and nanoporous media or to obtain controlled release from a material. A first simple ...

wide-genome genetic screening, the scientists discovered the central role of a gene known as LRRC8A in cellular ability to survive osmotic shock. This gene codes for a protein that forms channels ...

The cause of the die-off was what is known as “osmotic shock,” when single-celled organisms absorb too much water through their external membranes and burst. If a microbe can drown ...

Osmotic shock here refers to a sudden influx of water to a cell through its membrane. The flood can literally cause bacteria to burst open. The scientists estimate that this recent deluge was the ...

In order to survive cryogenic temperatures, cells must be accompanied by a cryopreservative agent, which prevents osmotic shock and limits the formation of ice crystals that can damage their cell ...

Paradoxically, excessive water can cause osmotic shock, killing these salt-loving bacteria and archaea. After one rare heavy rainfall in the Atacama, up to 87 percent of microbial species perished ...

When she was a PhD student, Carolina Tropini, a biophysicist and current postdoc in Justin Sonnenburg’s lab at Stanford University, noticed that some bacteria responded to osmotic shock—that is, rapid ...

1,2 We have encountered a clinical case of massive diuresis that followed release of urinary-tract obstruction in which urea was proved to be the osmotic driving force. The observation is ...

The researchers then subjected their microcapsules to osmotic shock by adding water, which diffused into the microcapsules and made them begin to swell at the thinnest part of the shell.

How do they do it? Osmotic shock, where water molecules outside the cell rapidly diffuse across the plasma membrane to the lower water concentration of the cytoplasm (hypoosmosis), or from the ...

Offering unprecedented yields of clean energy, researchers have developed a new method of harvesting electricity using fresh and salt water, referred to as osmotic power. As a concept, osmotic ...