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Scientists have discovered that the internal shape of tiny drug-delivery particles—called lipid nanoparticles—has a big ...

Fat isn’t just a guilty pleasure — it’s cancer’s secret weapon. New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center is shedding ...

Scientists have uncovered new details about how cells manage the distribution of lipids in their cell membrane. These lipids, known as phospholipids, are arranged in a bilayer of membranes ...

A new study by Professor José Villalaín, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miguel Hernández University of ...

Lipid ‘nanodomains’ hold the key to cell signaling mystery The role that tiny globules of fat in the cell membrane play in regulating an important protein has been imaged on a molecular level Figure 1 ...

“Cancer cells are altering how this lipid is metabolized, which in turn distorts the ‘eat me’ signals that malignant cells usually produce,” says first author Mariluz Soula, a former graduate student ...

Cancer cells can use lipids not just as fuel, but as a means to obscure inflammatory signals, ... “They’re mainly in the cell membrane to create scaffolding for signaling proteins. ...

A new antibody treatment prevents cholesterol buildup in heart mitochondria and restores energy production, offering hope for ...

Crossing the Cell Membrane Without Viruses May 14, 2025. By Caroline Seydel ... Tessera Therapeutics can use lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for delivery to the cells of interest.