Researchers have identified that an enzyme involved in lipid metabolism speeds up the immune system changes associated with aging.

New research suggests that decreased activity of ELOVL2 -- a key enzyme in lipid metabolism -- accelerates white blood cell aging and alters genes associated with the onset of blood cancers.

With ELOVL2 depleted, the mice were unable to produce as many functional B cells as healthy mice of similar age. "This loss was directly linked to changes in fat (lipid) metabolism, causing a ...

the researchers conducted genetic analysis to identify what triggers the changes in these cells. It was found that genes related to lipid metabolism were activated shortly after anemia onset ...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a hepatic metabolic syndrome resulting from lipid metabolic imbalance.

This diagram shows the metabolism of glucose in plants - how glucose can be made from starch, lipids and amino acids, and is used in the process of respiration. All cells require glucose for ...

Once thought to be little more than blobs of fat inside eukaryotic cells, lipid droplets may in fact provide a first line of defence against invading pathogens, according to evidence published today ...