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 ...

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 found that the Parkinson’s risk variant rs1450522 in SPTSSB increases sphingolipid levels and alters fatty acids ...

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 ...

The sphingolipid market in Germany is expected to develop at a 3.8% CAGR between 2025 and 2035, giving it the most market share in Europe. With large expenditures in lipidomics research for ...

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 ...