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Published online 14 August 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030811-7

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Fats to be counted

NIH gives biologists cash boost to tally cell's lipids.

The number of genes remains open to debate, the total tally of proteins baffling. But scientists keen to catalogue the cell have already set their sights on the next set of biological molecules - lipids.

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