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Something’s fishy

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Bruce Gibb focuses on fatty acids and wonders whether we’ll all be eating cyanobacteria before too long.

If you pick up a biochemistry textbook and zero in on any particular piece of Homo sapiens chemistry, you’ll probably unearth something of such fundamental importance to human existence that it has caused significant debate and controversy at some point in the past. And if it hasn’t, it may well currently be causing significant debate and controversy, or almost certainly will in the future. It’s just the nature of the beast.

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Fig. 1: Oleic acid is a starting material for various biochemical pathways that lead to other fatty acids.

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