Decades of research and news articles espousing an “obesity epidemic” and tons of weight-loss products launched under the ...

Prof. Shan Tizhong's team at Zhejiang University discovered that lard derived from subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), as a ...

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

Scientists discovered that polar bear fur’s oily coating prevents ice from sticking, thanks to a unique mix of lipids. This ...

The research supported by a grant from the Presidential Program of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) was published in Nature Communications. A major component of brain tissue, lipids are fatty ...

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified specific alterations in certain lipids in cancer cells ... Sciences at the UNIGE Faculty of Science, has carried out several research ...

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