Scientists at the University of Bonn have clarified a surprising dual function of ceramide synthase. The enzyme not only catalyzes a central step of the production of vital lipids. It also has the ...

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Ceramide is a sphingolipid consisting of sphingosine, an 18-carbon unsaturated amino alcohol hydrocarbon chain, which is joined by an amide linkage to a fatty acid of varying chain length and a ...

A study carried out at the University of Helsinki and école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland found that during aging, ceramides, a class of fat molecules called sphingolipids, start ...

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Sphingolipids are bioactive molecules that have key roles in the regulation of cancer cell signalling to control tumour suppression or survival. Ceramide is a bioeffector molecule that mediates cell ...

To help uncover the best ceramide-rich moisturizers, we asked our roster of expert dermatologists to break down their favorite, most efficacious formulas. Then we ranked and reviewed them across ...