Lipids are a significant class of nutrients vital to ... crucial for the cell membrane structure (Figure 2), each comprising two fatty acyl tails and a phosphate polar head on a glycerol backbone.

Lipids are a fundamental class of organic molecules ... Phospholipids are composed of a glycerol backbone, with a hydrophobic fatty acid tail, a hydrophilic head group, and a phosphate group. The type ...

The fatty membrane surrounding every living cell is a vibrant environment where countless biological processes take place.

In most aquatic vertebrates, the lateral line is most complex near the fish’s head, and becomes more streamlined as it approaches the animal’s tail. But in the cownose ray, the more complex ...

A new class of lipids developed by Penn Engineers improve the rates at which lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) successfully deliver RNA therapeutics and gene editing tools, promising to increase their ...

Mitchell, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania A few years ago, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University made a fascinating discovery: modifying the normally linear lipid tails of LNPs ...

Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have made a breakthrough in ...

Here's what you need to know about the history of the coin toss. "Tails never fails" might not exactly live up to the expression, but it so far has the advantage. Super Bowl coin tosses have ...