Tiny sacs of lipids long thought to merely act as floating cellular pantries have an unexpected function, according to a new study (Science 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.aay8085). The lipid droplets can ...

Spanning the Gap between Synthetic Lipid Chemisty and Signal Transduction Biology Many scientists are familiar with lipids as hydrophobic molecules that form biological cell membranes. However, ...

(Nanowerk News) Penn Engineers have discovered a novel means of directing lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the revolutionary molecules that delivered the COVID-19 vaccines, to target specific tissues, ...

An international team of scientists has developed a method for simultaneously detecting thousands of lipid molecules that are displayed to T cells in the human immune system. The study, co-led by D.

Figure 1. A schematic representation of a lipid nanoparticle encapsulating mRNA. As this new form of biotechnology makes a leap of progress, so too do the analytical approaches supporting its ...

James Parkinson, a 19th-century British surgeon, first reported what he called “the shaking palsy” in 1817, after observing a handful of patients with tremors and difficulty moving. More than 200 ...