Lipids are amphipathic or lipophilic biomolecules that influence the elastic properties and supramolecular organization of cell membranes, and regulate the activity of proteins involved in ...

Membrane proteins spend their time surrounded by lipids. For a long time, researchers thought those lipids didn’t really matter, that they were just a backdrop for the real players, an annoyance to be ...

The University of Utrecht in the Netherlands has announced that it has invested in three Applied Biosystems' mass spectrometers, an API 2000™, an API 3000™ and a 4000 Q TRAP® LC/MS/MS System, for ...

Scientists who add detergents to their cell preps, take heed: You might be consigning the most interesting stuff to the trash bin. Not proteins, surely, or nucleic acids, but lipids. A class of ...