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Researchers have developed chemical tools that can be used to influence lipid concentration in living cells, the results from which indicate a “lipid code”.

For more than 40 years, scientists have hypothesized the existence of enzyme clusters, or “metabolons,” in facilitating various processes within cells. Using a novel imaging technology combined with mass spectrometry, researchers at Penn State, for the first time, have directly observed functional metabolons involved in generating purines, the most abundant cellular metabolites.

Scientists at the University of Groningen have now used advanced simulations to investigate how lipoplexes deliver DNA fragments into cells. The results, which were published in the journal eLife, can be used to improve their efficiency.

Researchers have isolated nanobodies which bind to the “spike” protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which can be used to improve imaging of the virus.

Saliva could be used instead of blood to monitor diabetes in a new method proposed by researchers.

Decoy proteins that bind and trap the coronavirus to stop it infecting cells in our bodies are being developed by the University of Leicester.

Researchers have developed a new method for biomarker discovery of urological cancers, which enables timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has discovered a novel means by which bacterial colonies in the small intestine support the generation of regulatory T cells—immune cells that suppress autoimmune reactions and inflammation.

In a recent study, researchers from Osaka University and Baylor College of Medicine have identified a novel protein that takes part in sperm-oocyte membrane fusion during fertilization, and named it Fertilization Influencing Membrane Protein (FIMP).

Researchers have characterized how the gut microbiome develops in the first hours of infancy, providing a critical baseline for how changes in this environment can impact health and disease later in life.