Transport carrier articles from across Nature Portfolio

The mechanisms transporting fatty acids into the cell are not completely understood. Here, the authors discover a selective transporter for a specific class of lipids, and show its role in regulating neutrophil function during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.

In zebrafish embryos, active complexes of Wnt5b and its membrane-bound receptor Ror2 are transported between cells via cellular protrusions called cytonemes to initiate paracrine Wnt5b signalling in cells that do not endogenously express the receptor.