Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, ...

The human gut is home to trillions of microbes that not only aid in digestion, but also play a key role in shaping our immune ...

Membrane lipids are lipids involved in forming the structure of biological membranes – both the cell membrane and intracellular membranes – and in membrane function, namely ...

Study in mice shows how a host-elicited factor benefits gut immunological homeostasis by selectively targeting commensal ceramide molecules.

Using advanced proteomics technologies, research teams from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health at the Chinese ...

The human gut is home to trillions of microbes that not only aid in digestion but also play a key role in shaping our immune system. These microbes ...

In a study published in Nature on May 14, 2025, researchers addressed this question and identified an unexpected way in which ...

The human gut is home to trillions of microbes that not only aid in digestion but also play a key role in shaping our immune ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea of mitochondria being little batteries with a built-in charger, about as ...

Our observations, in an alveolar epithelial cell line and using silica nanoparticles, reveal that the lipid composition of the plasma membrane outer leaflet plays a significant role in ENM endocytosis ...