Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new type of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that could one day serve as a universal immunotherapy for cancers that form solid tumors, including ...

The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are well known: soreness, mild fever, and general malaise. Those symptoms, which typically resolve within days, are the natural ...

KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, in collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, has discovered how cancer cells can ...

Researchers are redesigning lipid nanoparticles to do more than shuttle mRNA into cells, with preclinical studies suggesting engineered particles can influence immune metabolism in ways that may ...

A genetic disorder leads to an increase in bioactive lipids in the brain, resulting in an imbalance between excitation and inhibition in neural circuits and promoting mental disorders. However, ...

Recently we had a conversation with Shardule Shah, CEO and founder of Lime Therapeutics, a company dedicated to advancing therapies for diseases related to dysfunctional lipid metabolism. By ...

Researchers have made a pivotal discovery in the field of cellular microscopy. The team has successfully developed Two-Color Infrared Photothermal Microscopy (2C-IPM), a novel technology designed to ...

In the latest research published in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, a large collaboration of European investigators led by Prof Marité Cárdenas of Malmö University, gained insights into ...

Dr. Joan Carles Escolà-Gil explains that "the bacterium uses the P116 protein as a highly effective tool to capture cholesterol and other essential lipids from the host, a mechanism that allows it to ...

Skoltech scientists and German researchers conducted a large-scale collaborative research project to study the fat composition in 6 different tissues of 32 mammalian species. They found that the ...