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Fryday 22 Mey 2020

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In biology, a lipid is a substance o biological oreegin that is soluble in nonpolar solvents. It comprises a group o naiturally occurrin molecules that include fats, wauxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (sic as vitamins A, D, E, an K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, triglycerides, an phospholipids. The main biological functions o lipids include storin energy, seegnalin, an actin as structural components o cell membranes. Lipids hae applications in the cosmetic an fuid industries as weel as in nanotechnology.

Scientists whiles broadly define lipids as hydrophobic or amphiphilic smaw molecules; the amphiphilic naitur o some lipids allous them tae form structurs sic as vesicles, multilamellar/unilamellar liposomes, or membranes in an aqueous environment. Biological lipids originate entirely or in pairt frae twa distinct teeps o biochemical subunits or "biggin-blocks": ketoacyl an isoprene groups. Uisin this approach, lipids mey be dividit intae aicht categories: fatty acids, glycerolipids, glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, saccharolipids, an polyketides (derived frae condensation o ketoacyl subunits); an sterol lipids an prenol lipids (derived frae condensation o isoprene subunits).

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Bothriechis schlegelii, a teep o veeper, i Costa Rica

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Coronavirus pandemic

The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen

Vincent van Gogh's pentin The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen (pictured) is stolen frae the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands.
North Macedonie acomes a member o NATO.
The 2020 Simmer Olympics are postponed for ane year due tae the coronavirus pandemic.

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On this day

22 Mey:

1377 – Pape Gregory XI issues five papal bulls tae denoonce the doctrines o Inglis theologian John Wycliffe.
1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster (picturt) near Gretna Green, Scotland, killin 227 fowk an injurin 246.
1960 – The Great Chilean yirdquauk, meisurin 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits soothren Chile, acomin the maist pouerfu yirdquauk iver recordit.
2017 – Twenty-twa fowk are killt at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombin.
2017 – Unitit States Preses Donald Trump veesits the Kirk o the Haly Sepulchre in Jerusalem an acomes the first sittin U.S. Preses tae veesit the Wastren Waw.

Richard Wagner (b. 1813) · Victor Hugo (d. 1885) · Novak Djokovic (b. 1987)

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