But now, a study published in Nature demonstrates that one particular lipid type is actually critical for cancer immune evasion—so much so that certain cancer cells cannot proliferate without it.

At Texas A&M University, one research lab is changing the game of droplet microfluidics ... they are effective against a particular cancer cell, or test millions of different cells one cell ...

Once thought to be little more than blobs of fat inside eukaryotic cells, lipid droplets may in fact provide a first line of defence against invading pathogens, according to evidence published today ...

More broadly the lab studies the mechanisms how cells regulate the abundance of lipids, how they store lipids to buffer fluctuation in their availability, and how these processes function in membrane ...

Caption Pictured are cells from a MIEL1 mutant Arabidopsis seed with neutral lipids shown in magenta and a lipid droplet coat protein shown in green. Traver and Bartel used genetics and microscopy ...