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Lipid bilayer has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
March 6, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
December 6, 2024	Good article reassessment	Kept

Current status: Good article

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nonpolar attraction?

This is the first sentence of the second paragraph of the "Mechanics" section:

"As discussed in the Structure and organization section, the hydrophobic attraction of lipid tails in water is the primary force holding lipid bilayers together."

I am not qualified to edit this, but I have spent the day studying the hydrophobic effect and my understanding is that there are no attractive forces driving it. Could someone more knowledgeable fix this if it's wrong? 100.14.196.129 (talk) 22:02, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Van der Waals attraction. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:50, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria due to several uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Is anyone interested in addressing this concern? Z1720 (talk) 00:49, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Lipid bilayer

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Result: Kept. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:05, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article has many uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Z1720 (talk) 22:25, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: A well-written article. I've tidied it up and added sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:14, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: My sourcing concerns are addressed. Z1720 (talk) 15:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.