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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...