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cheese sauce dripping off a piece of brocolli to illustrate lipid droplets
Science & Technology
August 14, 2018 | 12:02 pm

Lipid droplets play crucial roles beyond fat storage

You may not know it, but whenever you eat cheese, ice cream, or yogurt, you are also ingesting microscopic lipid droplets. Long thought of merely as formless blobs of fat, lipids are now proving crucial for understanding how embryos survive and how obesity affects the body.

topics: Department of Biology, featured-post-side, Michael Welte, obesity, proteins, research finding,