At LMAI, we love lipids!

Lipids are fascinating class of biomolecules teaching us how Nature translates chemistry into the biology and, ultimately, the Life as we know it. Variety of chemical moieties encoded in lipids allow for an amazing diversity of their functions. Thus, amphiphilic properties of lipids translate into assembly of biological membranes, which act as responsive barriers between a cell and its environment readily responding to any kind of stimuli. Compartmentalization via lipid-based membranes also supports electrical and chemical gradients necessary for both biosynthetic and signalling pathways. Lipids form an integral part of cellular and organismal metabolism, in which numerous anabolic and catabolic pathways are closely interlinked to support energy balance and its distribution. Lipids can be stored or transported between cells, tissues and organs, resembling a fine network of metabolic regulations across the scales, from single molecules to the organismal level…
Clearly, we can talk for hours and days about how fascinating lipids are!