Researchers report the structure of a key long-chain lipid in the tear film lipid layer, which prevents tears from drying out. Their finding may be used to improve treatments for dry eye. As anyone ...

Crenarchaeol is a large, closed-loop lipid that is present in the membranes of ammonium-oxidizing archaea. In comparison to other archaeal membrane lipids, crenarchaeol is very complex and, so far, ...

The findings reveal that LNPs come in a surprising variety of configurations and the differences correlate with their ...

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

Scientists have developed a method for analysing the structure of lipid nanoparticles that could be used to improve vaccine and drug delivery, targeting a wide range of health issues. A team led by ...

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the delivery vehicles of modern medicine, carrying cancer drugs, gene therapies and vaccines ...

The structure of lipid nanoparticles is similar to that of nanoemulsions. Typically, the size of nanoparticles varies between 50 and 1000 nm. It is different from nanoemulsions in that the lipid core ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 94, No. 23 (Nov. 11, 1997), pp. 12291-12296 (6 pages) The structure of truncated human apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I ...