For many lipids such as phospholipids, glycerolipids and sphingolipids, thousands of different molecular species were found to be present in tissues and cells. Having the ability to qualitatively ...

Lying at the heart of this early warning system are lipids, fatty compounds previously seen by cancer biologists primarily as a fuel source for burgeoning tumors. But now, a new study in Nature ...

The basic behavior of lipids in contact with water is due to their unusual nature. One end of the molecule is hydrophilic and the other is hydrophobic (Figure 1A), so lipid molecules will react to ...