In the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), scientists are trying to understand how sphingolipids operate in the cells and how they can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Previous research has linked sphingolipids with asthma. Patients with asthma had lower levels of sphingolipids ...

Sphingolipids are gaining strategic importance because they sit at the intersection of therapeutics, delivery science, and beauty biomimetics. In pharmaceuticals, their relevance is rising as research ...

Researchers headed by a team at the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) School of Life Sciences have made the first connection between muscular dystrophy (MD) and sphingolipids, a group of ...

Excess cholesterol is known to form artery-clogging plaques that can lead to stroke, arterial disease, heart attack, and more, making it the focus of many heart health campaigns. Fortunately, this ...

As per Future Market Insights’ latest industry analysis, the valuation for the global sphingolipids market was around US$ 564.0 Mn in 2021 and is projected to exhibit a CAGR growth of close to 5.1% ...

In a new study, the group of Johan Auwerx at EPFL's School of Life Sciences has made the first connection between muscular dystrophy and sphingolipids, a group of bioactive lipids. The study is ...

When it comes to cholesterol, we've come to accept a simple narrative. Our risk of heart disease is lower when we have more "good cholesterol," or high-density lipoproteins (HDL), and less "bad ...

Asthma is currently defined by reversible airflow obstruction, airway hyperreactivity, and airway inflammation. Of the three diagnostic criteria, asthma symptoms track most closely with airway ...

Sphingolipids have been known for more than 120 years but, up to recently, they were thought to be molecules that simply complied with a structural function, acting, as it were, as the building blocks ...

Scientists have made a link between muscular dystrophy and a group of bioactive fats, the sphingolipids, which are involved in numerous cell functions and other diseases. In a new study, the group of ...