Aa Aa Aa Most books mention that membranes have a typical "lipid bilayer," but why lipids, why should it be a bilayer, and how was this basic structure determined? Although it is now generally ...

The lipids in the samples were identified using mass spectrometry, which allows determining a molecule’s structure from the ... part of the brain affected its typical lipidome.

Steve Granick and colleagues 1 at the University of Illinois in Urbana report that nanoparticles can actively modulate the phase structure of lipid membranes so that the stiffness differs from ...