Lipids: News and Research on Phospholipids

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Why epithelial cancer is more aggressive in some tissues

A team led by scientists from the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool have revealed why a group of cancers common in older adults exposed to environmental damage behaves so differently depending on where they develop ...

Touch and temperature: How special fats fine-tune our senses

Our ability to feel a harmful touch or sense dangerous heat relies on specialized receptor proteins embedded in nerve cell membranes. But how do these receptors maintain their exquisite sensitivity? In a new study, researchers ...

Researchers find new way to cut cancer's lipid lifeline

Cancer thrives by hijacking the body's own basic survival systems, making it hard to attack tumors without collateral damage and side effects. Now, researchers at Cornell's Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have ...

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