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Large, lipid-rich ice-dwelling amphipods are prime prey for the circumpolar polar cod (Boreogadus saida).
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In southeastern California, where summer rainfall is less dependable, spadefoots emerge during the first storm, travel to ponds, call and breed, and gorge on lipid-rich, swarming termites, often in single night.
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They found that, when exposed to a lipid-rich diet, mice without GOAT accumulated less fat than normal mice, while those with over-expressed GOAT accumulated more fat mass than normal mice.
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They found that, when exposed to a lipid-rich diet, mice without GOAT accumulated less fat than normal mice, while those with over-expressed GOAT accumulated more fat mass than normal mice.
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General Hospital, said The root cause of acne is a lipid-rich gland, the sebaceous gland, which sits a few millimetres below the surface of the skin.
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Such larvae usually receive their symbiotic algae from the parent (maternal or “vertical” inheritance), small numbers of lipid-rich larvae are produced, and the released larvae generally are able to settle to a suitable surface almost immediately upon release.
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The positive buoyancy of lipid-rich eggs aids this motion, and often eggs are packaged with sperm in “egg-sperm” bundles, so that both gametes rise simultaneously to the surface of the ocean.
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Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) have shown, for the first time, that a laser can preferentially heat lipid-rich tissues, or fat, in the body without harming the overlying skin.
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Organelles are bounded by impermeant, lipid-rich membranes that ensure the physical and functional separation of vital biochemical processes.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 - Presentation Speech 1999
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That increase is initiated by suckling and depends on the intake of lipid-rich milk.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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