Early experiments, often by physicists, led to the understanding that the cell membrane was lipid in nature. A key experiment using the Langmuir trough provided the basis for accepting that the ...

The LNP-mRNA modality is a novel approach that uses lipid nanoparticles to deliver messenger RNA into cells. The mRNA acts as ...

The lipid nanoparticles that caused an immune response interacted with the cell membrane without disrupting its signaling ...

Butter is high in fat. Every cell in your body has a cell membrane which is made of lipids. Some hormones, including sex hormones, are made from a lipid called cholesterol. Fat is also an ...

"Since viruses cannot synthesize lipids, HIV 'steals' lipids from the plasma membrane of host cells," explains Toshihide ...

Here, we use a synthetic amphiphile to modulate the membrane mechanical properties of cell-derived vesicles and probe channel activation. Using precise membrane mechanical characterization approaches ...

We strive to unravel the mechanisms driving biological adaptation to environmental stressors through chemical modifications of cell membrane lipids (biomarkers). We use this knowledge to reconstruct ...

Every time a shuttle docks with the International Space Station (ISS), a delicate dance unfolds between the shuttle's docking ...

A research team has now used new in vitro and cell culture models to show that a lipid anchor on the outer membrane of nerve cells inhibits the aggregation of the prion protein. Researchers have ...