Lipid rafts are highly ordered microdomains of membranes enriched with particular proteins and lipids, including cholesterol and sphingolipids. This compartmentalization and enrichment allows ...

One of the most common causes of disability or death in newborns is a lack of oxygen or blood flow in the brain during labor or delivery. The condition, known as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), ...

Since the term was coined a decade ago, lipid rafts have turned out to be slippery characters. While conceptually appealing - picture a lipid platform recruiting key proteins to carry out membrane ...

A collaborative team of four professors and several graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemical Science and Technology at National Taiwan University, together with the ...

The cell membrane is the wall-like outer layer that separates the inside of a cell from its surrounding environment. The membrane mainly consists of lipids and proteins. Lipids are molecules that form ...