Working at Babraham, Alec Bangham made research contributions in many areas including mechanisms of anaesthesia, lung surfactants, haemoglobin polymorphisms, water structure and the evolutionary origin of life. His most significant discovery – that of the liposome – emerged from electron microscopy observations of hydrated lipid films with Bob Horne. Proteoliposomes subsequently became, and remain, a major tool for functional analysis of membrane transport and have also been developed as drug delivery systems.

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