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 ...

In a study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Europe analyzed the alterations of sphingolipids and their metabolizing enzymes in hospitalized or ...

Plasma ceramides and sphingomyelins with palmitic acid were linked to a 34% and 37% increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) per higher SD of log sphingolipid levels, respectively. After looking ...

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 ...

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 ...

This technique could predict asthma attacks up to years in advance - One in 12 Americans are living with asthma ...

Solving the Riddle of the Sphingolipids in Coronary Artery Disease Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have uncovered a way to unleash in blood vessels the protective effects of a type of fat-related ...

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 ...

The ancient Sphinx posed riddles to travelers before devouring them. Sphingolipids, the Sphinx’s modern namesake, may hold clues to the riddle of why some neurons fail to digest Aβ. In this week’s ...

The intake of a Western diet enriched in animal fat has been shown to be a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Previous rodent studies have indicated that these conditions may be ...

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 ...