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New Study published in Nature Methods

Without fat, nothing works in the body: These substances serve as energy suppliers and important building blocks - including for the envelopes of living cells. Numerous diseases are related to disorders in the fat metabolism, such as obesity or cancer. Prof. Christoph Thiele from the LIMES Institute at the University of Bonn and member of the Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation and others are now demonstrating how the fat metabolism can be monitored down to the individual liver cell of a mouse with the greatest sensitivity. This opens up several possibilities, such as minimizing the side effects of new drugs on the fat metabolism. The scientists now present their study in the journal "Nature Methods".


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Christoph Thiele, Klaus Wunderling, Philipp Leyendecker: Multiplexed and single cell tracing of lipid metabolism, Nature Methods, DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0593-6


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Prof. Dr. Christoph Thiele

University of BonnLife & Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES)

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E-mail: cthiele@uni-bonn.de

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