Surveying the lipid landscape with newly unveiled lipid analysis software

Researchers increasingly aim at using the manifold functions of lipids in our bodies, e.g., as blood fats or in blood coagulation, to better understand and predict diseases. An international team around Robert Ahrends at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna has now presented a groundbreaking tool for efficient lipid analysis in the journal Nature Communications. Their software LipidCreator highly accelerates the analysis of specific lipid groups and lipid signal molecules, and allows their qualitative and quantitative characterization with mass spectrometry. The scientists applied the new method successfully in an analysis of blood components.

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