Scientists at the University of the Philippines discovered a particular species has compounds in its body that have been shown to kill human liver cancer cells in the lab. These chemicals may also trigger the growth of neurites, the tiny projections from neurons that help people recover from traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.
Of particular note was a set of lipid - or fat - molecules called cerebrosides, which exist both in the body wall and the viscera. And the ones they identified 'could also very well be' the building blocks of sphingolipids, another type of lipid, the researchers wrote.
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