An Australian-first study has found that certain natural fats which exist in the skin of babies, called lipids, are linked to ...

Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and ...

Polar bears have developed a unique lipid composition that allows them to naturally repel ice, preventing dangerous ...

Scientists discovered that polar bear fur’s oily coating prevents ice from sticking, thanks to a unique mix of lipids. This ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) A vast number of chemicals are registered for production and use around the ...

Bacteria precisely adjust their membrane lipid composition by modifying the types of fatty acids that are produced by the biosynthetic pathway and altering the structures of pre-existing ...

This article presents a method for preparing stable and reproducible fatty acid (FA) stock solutions, which are essential for studying lipid signaling, metabolism, and lipid droplets (LDs). The ...

Division of Bio-Medical Science & Technology, KIST school, University of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea Center for Advanced Biomolecular Recognition, Korea Institute of Science ...

water molecules are held between the cell envelope lipids and the lipid layer. This cellular structure helps maintain the water balance in your skin, allowing trapped water molecules to stay closer to ...

and synthesize and accumulate various chemical compounds, primarily, silicon derivatives—the main component of diatom shells called frustules. Although the shape and structure of the frustule ...

Laboratoire de Biologie et Modélisation de la Cellule, CNRS, UMR 5239, Inserm, U1293, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon, France Centre ...