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Fats fighting back against bacteria

Droplets of fat inside our cells are helping the body’s own defence system fight back against infection, University of Queensland researchers have discovered. The international collaboration between UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers Professor Robert Parton and Professor Matt Sweet, and the University of Barcelona’s Professor Albert Pol found that these fat droplets are both a food source and weapon against bacterial invaders....