Chemical biology: fats as research subjects

• Published in: Nature methods Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 35 - 38
• Main Author: Marx, Vivien
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.01.2018; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/1647/2196; 631/45/287; 631/92/96; 706/703/559; Bioinformatics; Biological Microscopy; Biological Techniques; Biology; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology; Biomedical Research; Chemical properties; Chemistry; Fats; Fats - analysis; Fats - metabolism; Fatty acids; Humans; Innovations; Life Sciences; Lipids; Mass spectrometry; Membranes; Metabolites; Methods; Molecular biology; Nucleic acids; Proteins; Proteomics; Scientific imaging; Signal Transduction; technology-feature

Fats add structure, they signal, they interact. In the lab, lipids are tough to work with but worth the challenge.