What role do omega-6 fatty acids play in cardiovascular disease and diabetes? Scientists from Mannheim, together with researchers from Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Hangzhou in China, have investigated ...

Regulation of fatty acid metabolism in bacteria integrates synthesis, degradation and membrane adaptation through coordinated control of enzyme expression and activity. Biosynthetic pathways generate ...

Scientists from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a lipid-rich mutant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a ...

(a) The CHX chase assay demonstrated that OL significantly decreased the protein stability of ACOT1 (p < 0.05), suggesting that OL regulated ACOT1 expression via a posttranslational mechanism. (b) ...

National Taiwan University researchers, with collaborators in Taiwan and the US, report that adipocyte lipolysis activates epithelial hair follicle stem cells and drives hair regeneration via ...

A recent JAMA Network Open study assesses the role of ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in reducing white matter lesion (WML) accumulation and neuronal integrity degeneration in older adults.