Lipid droplets play crucial roles beyond fat storage

Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 10:10 in Biology & Nature

Lipid droplets were long thought of merely as formless blobs of fat. But a new study describes how lipid droplets regulate certain proteins involved in gene expression. The research has implications for understanding what helps embryos survive and how we look at lipid-related diseases like obesity.

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