Researcher find fats galore in human plasma

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 08:20 in Biology & Nature

Human blood is famously fraught with fats; now researchers have a specific idea of just how numerous and diverse these lipids actually are. A national research team, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has created the first 'lipidome' of human plasma, identifying and quantifying almost 600 distinct fat species circulating in human blood...

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