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Earthworms and lipid couriers

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Lipids can hop between cellular compartments without using the transport vesicles that carry proteins. A key molecule involved in conveying the lipid ceramide has at last been uncovered.

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Figure 1: Conveying ceramide from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the Golgi.

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