Dynamic equilibrium is a state in which the rate of the forward process (dissolution) equals the rate of the reverse process ...

What are the nutrients that form the base of a healthy diet? Food contains the building blocks you need to develop and maintain your body, supplying energy and raw materials so that organs, tissues, ...

Tybee Island is experiencing severe flooding and sewer issues due to heavy rainfall and rising groundwater levels. The city is pursuing an $80 million, 20-year plan to improve stormwater ...

When it comes to your diet, all fats aren’t created equally. There are better fats and fats that should be limited. It’s important to get more of the good fats like monounsaturated fats and avoid the ...

It has just been rain, rain, rain and more rain the last few days. And it's going to be here for a couple more days. West and Middle Tennessee have been inundated with inches of rain starting on ...

The word “lipid” is another word for “fat.” Lipids can be both solid or liquid at room temperature, in which case they are called fats or oils, respectively. For several decades, fats were considered ...

Researchers have identified ARMC5 as a key regulator of fatty acid balance in adipose tissue. ARMC5 degrades non-SCAP-bound SREBP1, activating it to regulate stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD), an enzyme ...

Researchers at Osaka University identified a degradation factor for SREBP1 as essential for maintaining the balance of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in adipose tissue. This discovery may lead ...

The previous article described how fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon-carbon bonds, with the carbon mostly “saturated” with hydrogen atoms. When two saturated adjacent carbon atoms exchange ...