A molecular look at nascent HDL formation
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

Oil and water don`t mix. But our aqueous blood is full of different types of hydrophobic lipids-including cholesterol. In order to travel via the bloodstream, those lipids need to hitch a ride on an amphipathic carrier. In a recent paper in the Journal of Lipid Research, scientists at Boston University report an advance in our mechanistic understanding of how one such carrier forms.