lipids

What: "Two kinds of braidings are present: the lipid flow defines braiding in time direction as the analog of dance and the fact that lipids are like dancers with threads from shoes the wall - now microtubule surface - so that the dance induce braiding of these threads storing the dynamics of the dance to memory."

Writer: M. Pitkanen

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Date: Dec 30 2013 7:34 PM

What: "Researchers are familiar with nucleic acids, RNA, proteins, and maybe even carbohydrates, but usually not with lipids," says Zheng Cui, a biochemist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Lipids are probably the most ignored type of molecules by the entire field of biological sciences, and yet they play a key role in many of the functions of the body." For example, lipids function as both energy stores and signaling molecules, and they literally define cells, separating the intracellular from the extracellular components with an impermeable bilayer."

Writer: Jennifer Fisher Wilson

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Date: Dec 30 2013 7:43 PM

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"He goes on to liken proteins and lipids to knights and armies from the Middle Ages. "Knights are like proteins. Each knight has a pedigree, a story, an emblem, a flag. Lipids are like armies," he says. "Knights are more visible. It's easier to write poetry about them, but in the end it's the army that wins, the collective of individuals. That's the lipids."

Writer: Andrej Shevchenko

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Date: Dec 30 2013 7:47 PM

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"Lipids are like porn... They're kinky," is such a good intro to lipid metabolism. Finally, a professor makes Biochem interesting."

Writer: Joshua Wienczkowski

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Date: Dec 30 2013 7:49 PM