fungal and bacterial systems. Metabolomics and systems biology Several different approaches have been pursued to glean information about the quantity and identity of lipids that are present within ...

Once thought to be little more than blobs of fat inside eukaryotic cells, lipid droplets may in fact provide a first line of defence against invading pathogens, according to evidence published today ...

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues ...

Bacterial proteins disrupt the homeostasis, or balance, of the metabolism in the host, which causes an acidic environment and ...

Among these changes was the selective accumulation, throughout the body, of certain lipids produced by gut bacteria as the mice aged. They also discovered a sex difference in the kidneys and a ...

We used the presence of an intact ladderane monoether lipid with a phosphocholine (PC) headgroup as a direct indicator for living anammox bacteria and compared it with the abundance of ladderane core ...

Sweat is a complex mixture of various substances – including vitamins, mineral salts, lactic acid, amino acids and lipids. This makes it an excellent nutrient source for bacteria and fungi ...