Whether or not someone develops Parkinson's disease may be a game of nanometers. A recent study has demonstrated that chains of fatty acids in the lysosome just one-half nanometer longer than ...

Very long-chain lipids in the most superficial layer of the tear film cause severe dry eye disease when they were shortened in mice -- a result that could help develop new drugs for the disease. With ...

“We’ve never had such an in-depth map of the CD1 lipidome available,” said Patricia Barral, an immunologist at King’s College London who was not involved with the work. “It will enable us to start ...

Incorporating medium-chain triglycerides into the regular diet of patients with rheumatoid arthritis can improve their mental well-being and social functioning, a 16-week randomized trial shows.

Researchers have outlined a sequence of events that can lead to Parkinson's disease, including disruptions to lipid mechanisms. The team, led by researchers at the US' Baylor College of Medicine and ...

Better mRNA release inside cells boosts vaccine and gene editing performance, enabled by redesigned lipid molecules that grip ...

Lipid nanoparticles consist of spherical vesicles made of ionizable lipids with a positive charge at a low pH level, while being neutral at a physiological pH. Such a characteristic enables RNA ...

Lipid density has been shown to be the defining factor in membrane flexibility, potentially opening new avenues in synthetic biology. Research into membrane behavior has revealed that how tightly ...