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What the research is about The cell membrane that surrounds our cells may look smooth and simple, but it is actually ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Metabolism, a team of researchers conducted detailed longitudinal profiling and analysis of the lipidome using plasma samples from over a hundred ...