Lipids include fats (solid at room temperature) and oils (liquid at room temperature). Lipids are an important part of a healthy diet. The body uses lipids as an energy store, as insulation and to ...

Adipocytes can enlarge to store energy in the form of fat, preventing excess lipids from accumulating in organs like the ...

Lipids, or fats, are essential to life ... at TUD Dresden University of Technology showed that cells can function with just two lipids. They created a cell with a minimal, adaptable membrane ...

A CNIC study published in Nature Communications reveals that caveolae in adipocytes help safely store excess fat, preventing ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Professor Miguel Ángel del Pozo Barriuso, who heads the Mechanoadaptation and Caveolae Biology group at the CNIC, has ...