Share on Pinterest Our lipid profile may hold vital clues about our health. Image credit: Yamada Taro/Getty Images. Lipids are fatty compounds that are one of the building blocks needed to make living ...

Lipids are fats. Although fats were vilified a few decades ago, and many people avoided high-fat foods because they thought eating them would lead to weight gain, we now know its not quite that simple ...

The word “lipid” is another word for “fat.” Lipids can be both solid or liquid at room temperature, in which case they are called fats or oils, respectively. For several decades, fats were considered ...

Cheryl Kerfeld, Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University (MSU) and in two divisions of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, ...

In honor of September being National Cholesterol Education Month, Johns Hopkins is highlighting several resources available to university employees to prevent and control high cholesterol. The article ...

Thought LeadersMichael GirgisAssistant Professor at the Bioengineering departmentGeorge Mason University Get ready to explore the fascinating world of lipid nanoparticles in the latest episode of omg ...

Even though hyperlipidemia heightens vulnerability to MIs and strokes, clinicians are not doing a very good job controlling the condition. Less than half of all patients who qualify for lipid-lowering ...

More than a century ago, Alois Alzheimer noted unusual changes in brain fats, which he described as "lipoid granules," along ...

Researchers from the SNI network have discovered a novel way to fuse lipid vesicles at neutral pH. By harnessing a fragment ...