Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...

Fatty Acid Binding Proteins (FABPs) are a family of intracellular proteins that chaperone lipids important to normal cellular ...

Biological cells are incredibly complex mixes of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and carbohydrates. A model developed by two ...

Ceramides are lipids that help to keep the skin barrier strong and healthy. This is important as the skin barrier keeps ...

Inter-organelle communication via the formation of membrane contact sites (MCS) is essential for cell homeostasis. Bacterial pathogens residing in membrane bound vacuoles have exploited this ...

Findings indicate ovarian cancer disrupts CD8+ T cell metabolism through FABP5 and TAGLN2, suggesting new therapeutic targets ...

In a paper published in Science Bulletin, multi-omics analyses comprising of lipidomics (439 lipids), sterolomics (22 ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Intracellular lipid chaperones dictate the destiny of lipids. Also known as fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs), these are a group of proteins that coordinate lipid trafficking and signalling in ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.