Researchers describe first functioning 'lipidome' of mouse macrophage

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 14:32 in Biology & Nature

For the first time, scientists have described not only the identities and quantities of fat species in a living mammalian cell – in this case, a mouse macrophage or white blood cell – but they also report how these lipids react and change over time to a bacterial stimulus triggering the cell's immune response.

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