First functioning 'lipidome' of mouse macrophage described
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 15:30
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.