The world's oceans represent a vast and largely untapped source of biodiversity, offering a high probability for the discovery of unique chemical compounds with therapeutic properties. Among these, ...
Lipids are fats. Although fats were vilified a few decades ago, and many people avoided high-fat foods because they thought eating them would lead to weight gain, we now know its not quite that simple ...
In a novel discovery, scientists have identified three previously unknown compounds now named oryzaceramides A, B, and C. Of these, oryzaceramide A has demonstrated significant skin barrier-enhancing ...
Scientists at Kindai University and Oryza Oil & Fat Chemical Co., Ltd., Japan, discovered three novel plant-derived acylated glucosylceramides, oryzaceramides A–C, from rice bran. One compound, ...
New study demonstrates that one type of lipid is so critical for immune evasion that certain cancers cannot proliferate without them. Modulating intake of dietary lipids could open up an avenue for ...
A research team has identified Crocin II, a natural compound derived from saffron, as a promising therapeutic candidate for metabolic ...