A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

Lipids are difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, a Dresden-based team led by ...

For life to function, cell membranes must remain intact. When these fragile barriers are damaged—for instance by heat or ...

Researchers in Hamburg and Göttingen have generated a mini-antibody that neutralizes a protein essential for the infection ...

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognized enzymatic domains—named the Lipocone superfamily—and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defense molecules to key ...

Physical chemistry explains the principles of self-organization of lipids into bilayers that form the matrix of biological membranes, and continuum theory of membrane energetics is successful in ...

The molecule Wnt, which plays a role in cell communication during human development, evolved from a superfamily with a shared lipid-modifying mechanism originally involved in bacterial defence and ...

Mitochondria constantly fuse and divide, are actively transported to specific subcellular localizations and have dynamic structures. Mitochondrial dynamics is important for the functional state of ...

This new wellness trend brings us right back to the building blocks of what it means to be healthy The sci-fi era of wellness ...

A new study explores the potential connection between unsaturated fats and Alzheimer’s risk in women. Experts share how to ...

Dresden research team develops novel imaging approach to visualize individual lipids in cells and uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell. Dr. André Nadler Email: ...