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Research Features

Our research features take a more in-depth look at selected aspects of our research and the wider impacts of our science for the wider world. Browse all of these articles in the reader window below or access specific features directly from the introductions further down the page. These features were originally produced as part of our Annual Research Reports.
 

17/10/2023

The legacy of liposomes: how fundamental research keeps on giving

The history of liposomes from discovery to vaccine delivery. This narrative was written by Honor Pollard and Louisa Wood as part of the EU-LIFE narratives project. 

 By Honor Pollard

05/08/2019

Welcome to the lipidome

This feature was written by Becky Allen for the Annual Research Report 2018

Once neglected as too dull to study and too sticky to work with, lipids are at last stepping out of the shadows. Institute Director Michael Wakelam and lipidomics facility manager Andrea Lopez-Clavijo explain the challenges of working with these cellular Cinderellas and share their excitement of research in a field that’s finally giving up its secrets.

 By Becky Allen