Sensing environmental temperature is crucial for the development and survival of animals. Insects such as fruit flies have ...

A new material could significantly improve the delivery and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines by replacing a commonly used ingredient that may trigger unwanted immune responses in some people.

Those ionizable lipids, which are remarkably similar in structure, were discovered while the firms were optimizing LNPs for systemic administration and delivery to the liver—not the ...

"The structure of the antibody itself holds an encoding principle to recognize lipids, which is something that was underappreciated before," Maillie says. Understanding these structural ...

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization and protein components of a lipid-transfer complex known as LPD-3.

The most notable case is that of Amy Wax, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, whose career has now been capped by a suspension and demotion. How it happened tells us much about the ...

With it, the Penn team achieved the stepwise optimization of ionizable lipid structure, a feat that hadn’t been achieved previously, despite the application of rational design and combinatorial ...

University of California San Diego Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Itay Budin teamed up with researchers from around the country to study the cell membranes of ctenophores (“comb ...

Researchers have studied the cell membranes of ctenophores ('comb jellies') and found they had unique lipid structures that allow them to live under intense pressure. The bottom of the ocean is ...

"Originally, science thought only proteins had structures with function," said Hansen. "It looks like the lipids can be added to that list." A cell is made of a fatty exterior membrane encasing a ...

It turns out that the distinctive blue color of blueberries, plums, Oregon grapes, and other blue fruits comes from the disordered structure of their epicuticular wax, according to a new study.