Researchers describe first functioning 'lipidome' of mouse macrophage
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 13:50
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...