fatty acids

The oil’s omega-3 fatty acids accumulate in the mice’s skin, triggering an immune response that causes hair loss.

The odor prompted the animals’ fat cells to release lipids into circulation.

People with more carboxylic acids in their body odor are more attractive to mosquitoes, a study finds.

Far from being inert fat-storage depots within cells, these lipid-loaded organelles recruit immune proteins and block bacterial growth.

Scientists identify a potential biomarker for predicting the progression of a deadly cardiac disease.

Men had better fat-burning results when they had breakfast after cycling instead of beforehand.

Low levels of a biochemical process involved in fat breakdown predicts weight gain and metabolic complications more than a decade later.

Researchers are beginning to decipher the metabolic language of the microbiome, and determine how gut microbes communicate with host tissue.

Guenther Boden, who linked insulin resistance with fatty acids in the blood, has passed away at age 80.

A new experimental system demonstrates that precursors of ribonucleotides, amino acids, and lipids may have simultaneously arisen from the same prebiotic chemistry.

A new class of pheromones, triacylglycerides, helps male fruit flies mark their mates to deter rivals.

Genetic variants that cripple a triglyceride-producing protein are linked with a lower risk of heart attack and stroke.

Most scientists believe that ribonucleic acid played a key role in the origin of life on Earth, but the versatile molecule isn’t the whole story.
 

New research suggests that fish fat can prevent chemotherapy drugs from doing their job.