Researchers have discovered the brain uses fat the same way muscles do — as an alternative fuel to glucose — going against ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 16 of Oncotarget on June 25, 2025, titled "Hypoxia induced lipid droplet ...

This protocol refines co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP) for lipid droplet (LD)-specific protein interactions by isolating ...

Lipid droplets normally associate with mitochondria. But during an infection, these organelles seem to help switch cells into a bacteria-fighting metabolic mode by uncoupling themselves from the ...

image: Centrins control chicken cone cell lipid droplet dynamics through lipid droplet-localized SPDL1-L. view more Credit: IGDB. In a study published in Developmental Cell, researchers led by ...

When they overexpressed tau in glia, but not in photoreceptor neurons, lipid droplet production fell by nearly 80 percent. When they cranked up tau expression in glia throughout the fly brain, glial ...

Alzheimer's disease progression linked to microglia fat metabolism, potential new treatment target identified in recent study ...

The authors use cell sorting to confirm that lipid-droplet-containing microglia increase with aging and disease, in this case, a murine model of amyloid accumulation (APP-KI). In further support, ...

Figure 1. Overview of the different classes of lipid-based nanoparticles. Particle/droplet sizes among the different types can range from ~50-500 nm.

Oil droplet formation: Oil (yellow) accumulates between the layers of the membrane that forms the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)—a network of membranes within the cytoplasm of plant cells. Droplets ...