Related: Protein-lipid particles to deliver genetic medicine Pegylated lipids, in which polyethylene glycol (PEG) strands are attached to lipid heads, have several functions in a nanoparticle.

Designed to boost alertness, some energy drinks are now being linked to an increased risk of blood cancer, according to a ...

A team of scientists has answered a long-standing question in cell biology, uncovering how the cell's main energy currency, ...

Using advanced proteomics technologies, research teams from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health at the Chinese ...

Study in mice shows how a host-elicited factor benefits gut immunological homeostasis by selectively targeting commensal ceramide molecules.

The body needs to avoid targeting the lipids in its own membranes, so traditionally, any increase in lipid affinity has been linked with autoimmune ... region with both protein and lipid ...

Lipids are fat in cells. A textbook image of the cell membrane (which is what Gould meant by “shell”) shows proteins jostling in a bed of lipids. Scientists know a lot about these membrane ...

The relationship between variability in lipid fractions and the risk for heart failure remains understudied, particularly in patients with T2D who are at an increased risk for both dyslipidemia ...

The researchers analyzed gene and protein expression, along with lipid profiles ... “This loss was directly linked to changes in fat (lipid) metabolism, causing a complete shift in membrane ...

The researchers analyzed gene and protein expression ... "This loss was directly linked to changes in fat (lipid) metabolism, causing a complete shift in membrane composition and fluidity ...

suggesting that lipid composition and distribution are tightly linked to lysosomal membrane dynamics. These findings suggest that reduced ATG-9 scramblase activity may facilitate lysosome ...