This series of Thematic Review articles concerns the biology of lipid droplets. Lipid droplets have been described in diverse cell types in histological and morphological studies for more than a century and a half. It is likely that structures referred to historically in the literature as “lipid bodies”, “lipid globules”, “lipid particles”, and “oil bodies” all represent lipid droplets. But the recognition that lipid droplets represent a bona fide organelle containing specialized proteins and having a dynamic itinerary in cells has occurred much more recently.
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