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Bioanalytical Chemistry Lab (Bioresource Chemistry Division)
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A lab that carefully analyzes the lipids of marine organisms to capture their characteristics.
AboutAbout the lab
Decoding the lipids of marine life, one by one
The Ando Lab studies the structure and composition of lipids in marine organisms.
Lipids are substances derived from living organisms that dissolve poorly in water and dissolve well in oil.
The lipids of aquatic organisms contain far more types of compounds than those of terrestrial animals and plants, and measuring their structures and amounts is not easy.
The lab carefully analyzes lipid components in a wide range of fish, from familiar marine fish to wild Pacific bluefin tuna and rarely distributed species.
Key terms
- Lipid
- A substance derived from living organisms that dissolves poorly in water and dissolves well in oil. It has long, connected chains of carbon
- Fatty acid
- One of the components that make up lipids. DHA and EPA are also fatty acids, and they can serve as clues to a fish's nutritional state
- Gas chromatography
- An analytical method in which a mixture is vaporized and passed through a thin tube to separate it into its components and measure the amount of each
ResearchResearch themes
The lab carefully analyzes the lipid components of marine organisms to capture the characteristics of aquatic organisms' lipids. For fatty acid analysis, it uses a method that can measure even a single tiny larval fish.
*Illustrative imageCapturing the characteristics of aquatic organisms' lipids
The lab analyzes lipid components and investigates their characteristics in a range of organisms, from familiar marine fish such as sardines, mackerel, and herring to wild Pacific bluefin tuna, as well as rarely distributed fish and the organisms they feed on.
*Illustrative imageFatty acid analysis of a single larval fish
Using gas chromatography, the lab has made it possible to analyze trace amounts of fatty acids in the muscle of larval fish about 3 mm in body length. The lab believes this can become a means of studying the growth and survival of larval fish.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYasuhiro Ando
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Fish lined up at a fresh fish store at Tezukayama, Osaka, Japan, February” Laitche / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Capturing the characteristics of aquatic organisms' lipids: “Thunnus orientalis (Osaka Kaiyukan Aquarium)” OpenCage / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- Fatty acid analysis of a single larval fish: “Gas chromatograph NeoCHROM in the laboratory” NeoLyo89 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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