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Marvel’s Decades-Old Film Slate Goes Viral
Long before the days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios largely produced films in partnership with outside studios. There was Blade with New Line Cinema, Sam Raim's Spider-Man trilogy with Sony, 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise, and more sprinkled throughout Hollywood. While there weren't plans to create an interconnected universe at the time, Marvel's…
Decades-old structural mystery surrounding the birth of energy-storing lipid droplets solved
In humans, virtually every cell stores fat. However, patients with a rare condition called congenital lipodystrophy, which is often diagnosed in childhood, cannot properly store fat, which accumulates in the body's organs and increases the risk of early death from heart or liver disease. In 2001, a transmembrane protein called seipin was identified as a…