Image of the Day: Assorted Adipose
Fat cells use glucose and certain amino acids to produce these accumulated lipid droplets (red).
Nov 17, 2015
The Scientist Staff
UC SAN DIEGO JACOBS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, METABOLIC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY LAB(See “Branched-chain amino acid catabolism fuels adipocyte differentiation and lipogenesis,” Nature Chemical Biology, 2015.)
