Lipid molecules form the membranes that organize cellular biochemistry in all domains of life. Imaging approaches have been developed to visualize different types of lipid at subcellular scales and ...

New technique to image single lipids: Lipids are notoriously difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, the Dresden team has overcome this limitation, enabling ...

Lipids are difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, a Dresden-based team led by André Nadler at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and ...

Cell boundaries are made of lipids. When cells are severely damaged, these lipids need to be rapidly removed to avoid toxicity and facilitate tissue healing. Researchers have discovered that a small ...

Finding new antibiotics is a matter of increasing public health concern as drug-resistant bacteria spread around the world. But the task is notoriously difficult; on top of the challenge of developing ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 45 (November 5, 2019), pp. 22619-22623 (5 pages) Contacts between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and ...

Social media users have claimed the presence of lipid nanoparticles in a COVID-19 vaccine means it could contain small robots or computers. This is false - these nanoparticles are tiny lipid droplets ...