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Time for lipid cell biology

Nature Cell Biology volume 27, pages 169–174 (2025)Cite this article

It is an exciting time for lipid metabolism and membrane cell biologists as technological progress has increased our ability to study lipids in cells. We asked leaders studying lipid cell biology from different perspectives to share what questions they are most interested in and what tools they believe the field is currently lacking.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, NHC Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Xiao-Wei Chen

  2. School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Anthony S. Don

  3. Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Anthony S. Don

  4. Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Anthony S. Don

  5. Center of Membrane Biochemistry and Lipid Research, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and Faculty of Medicine of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Maria Fedorova

  6. Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Côte d’Azur - CNRS UMR7275 - Inserm U1323, Valbonne, France

    Takeshi Harayama

  7. Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

    Natalie Krahmer

  8. German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

    Natalie Krahmer

  9. Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Shigekazu Nagata

  10. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Priyanka Narayan

  11. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Dequina Nicholas

  12. Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

    Sara M. Nowinski

  13. Neuroscience and Mental Health Programme, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Yasunori Saheki

  14. Institute of Resource Development and Analysis, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Yasunori Saheki

  15. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Clay F. Semenkovich

  16. Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale Center for Molecular and Systems Metabolism, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Xiaoai Zhao

  17. School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

    Yilong Zou

  18. Westlake Four-Dimensional Dynamic Metabolomics (Meta4D) Laboratory, Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China

    Yilong Zou

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Correspondence to Xiao-Wei Chen, Anthony S. Don, Maria Fedorova, Takeshi Harayama, Natalie Krahmer, Shigekazu Nagata, Priyanka Narayan, Dequina Nicholas, Sara M. Nowinski, Yasunori Saheki, Clay F. Semenkovich, Xiaoai Zhao or Yilong Zou.

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Chen, XW., Don, A.S., Fedorova, M. et al. Time for lipid cell biology. Nat Cell Biol 27, 169–174 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-025-01609-w

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