Lipids are a diverse group of hydrophobic or amphipathic biomolecules that serve as structural components of cell membranes, energy stores and signalling mediators. Major classes include fatty acids, ...

Biochemistry is the study of the chemicals and chemistry of living organisms. Biochemists study biomolecules (such as proteins, RNA, DNA, sugars, and lipids), their applications and interactions in ...

Inflammation is a vital immune response to injury or infection, yet its timely resolution is equally critical to prevent chronic pathology. Pro-resolving lipid mediators are a class of endogenously ...

Illustration of a dimer protein structure. A structure of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) dimer shows how it binds to a phosphatidylinositol species. Credit: Nature The work suggests new ...

Glyn Dawson, an expert on lipid biochemistry and longtime professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, died April 14 at the age of 83 ...