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.