The body has to clear away dead cells and other unnecessary or unneeded stuff, and one mechanism that is crucial to the ...

A team of international scientists, led by Gioele La Manno, PhD, and Giovanni D’Angelo, PhD, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne’s (EPFL) school of life sciences reportedly has determined ...

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. But advances in heart-failure therapeutics have ...

In brain tumours, immune cells called macrophages scavenge lipid debris from the myelin sheath of neurons. These lipid-laden macrophages cause immunosuppression, and their transfer of lipids to ...

How does a cell "decide" what type of cell to become? The question of "cell fate" has been explored for decades now, especially in the context of stem cell biology, but there are still gaps in our ...

A University of Alberta research team has discovered a new function for brain molecules known as gangliosides, offering ...

A study has sampled single live cancer cells and measured the fatty lipid compounds inside them. The team saw how those cells transformed in response to changes in their environment. Imagine being ...

Bethesda, MD – When the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes invades the body, it commandeers its host cell's actin cytoskeleton to invade other cells. In a report published in the Journal of Biological ...

ELRIG Drug Discovery 2025 recognizes BubbleFect, a lipid-free cell delivery system that utilizes phase separation peptides ...

New research has shown that triple-negative breast cancer is fuelled by lipids and fatty acids that are a key feature of obesity.