lipid

The timing of meals affects the levels of lipids in the livers of mice, according to a study.

Human variations in a gene that causes matted fur in mutant mice are tied to the skin malady.

There are five steps of autophagosome biogenesis: induction, expansion, vesicle completion, fusion, and cargo degradation. 

Despite years of research, the longstanding mystery of where the autophagosome gets its double lipid bilayers is not much clearer.

A biologist and a physicist collaborate on a decade-long exploration of the physical parameters of membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells.

Institut Curie researchers Bruno Goud, a biologist, and Patricia Bassereau, a physicist, talk about their fruitful, decade-long collaboration exploring the physics of membrane trafficking in a Skype interview conducted by Associate Editor Richard P. Grant.

Lewis Cantley has made a career of turning chemical contaminants into groundbreaking discoveries—including novel lipids, potent inhibitors, and kinases involved in cancer.

The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced a couple of days ago that it had appointed Michael Wakelam, currently of the University of Birmingham, to be its director as of January 1 next year.