Lipid Insight’s Full Suite of Lipidomics Analysis Services

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Comprehensive, Cutting-Edge Lipidomic Solutions for Research Excellence

Lipid Insight’s Full Suite of Lipidomics Analysis Services represents the newest evolution in lipid profiling, combining scientific rigour with seamless workflow integration. As a Canadian leader in lipidomics, Lipid Insight provides comprehensive, end-to-end support—from optimized sample preparation and targeted/untargeted profiling to advanced DESI‑MS spatial imaging and bioinformatics-driven statistical analysis. By housing LC-MS/MS, Orbitrap HRAM-MS/MS, and validated workflows under one roof, our lipidomics analysis delivers reproducible results with expert scientific guidance.

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Targeted Lipidomics
Precision Meets Discovery

Targeted Lipidomics enables precise quantification of specific lipid species, delivering accurate and reproducible data essential for modern biomedical research. This focused approach uses advanced LC-MS/MS technology to validate hypotheses in areas such as biomarker discovery and disease mechanism studies. Researchers can rely on targeted lipidomics for absolute quantification, supporting both clinical trials and pharmacokinetic studies that demand regulatory-grade data integrity. It ensures data reproducibility across experiments, helping build robust, defensible findings. By leveraging this powerful analysis, investigators gain analytical confidence and clear insights that guide decision-making in therapeutic and clinical applications.

Untargeted Lipidomics
Explore the Lipidome—No Limits

With Untargeted Lipidomics, researchers can capture a broad spectrum of lipid species in a single run, enabling truly comprehensive lipid profiling. This approach is especially valuable in exploratory research, offering an unbiased look at the lipidome without any pre-set assumptions or limitations. It’s the preferred strategy for early-stage discovery-phase research, where uncovering novel lipid biomarkers can lead to significant breakthroughs. Systems biology studies also benefit from untargeted lipidomics, as it provides a holistic view of lipid metabolism across complex networks. By unlocking previously hidden insights, this method empowers researchers to map lipid pathways and disease mechanisms with unparalleled breadth.

Scientist operating LC-MS system during untargeted lipidomics analysis to identify a wide range of lipid species in exploratory research.
Scientist conducting complex lipidomics analysis using LC-MS instrumentation to investigate lipid subclasses such as sphingolipids and glycerophospholipids.

Complex Lipidomics
Decode Lipid Complexity

Complex Lipidomics identifies and profiles lipid subclasses with intricate structures—such as sphingolipids, glycerophospholipids, and ether lipids—enabling a deeper understanding of cellular lipid signalling and communication. This advanced analysis sheds light on the roles of these complex lipids in disease states, particularly in areas like inflammation, cancer progression, and metabolic disorders. Mechanistic researchers depend on complex lipidomics to dissect how specific lipid molecules influence disease pathways and therapeutic responses. Translational medicine programs also utilize these insights to bridge laboratory findings with clinical applications. By decoding the lipid signatures in these critical subclasses, researchers can advance both fundamental science and clinical impact.

Fatty Acid Profiling
Know Your Fatty Acids—Unlock Health

Our Fatty Acid Profiling service breaks down the full composition of fatty acids in tissues, cells, and biofluids with unmatched precision and reliability. It provides a detailed understanding of how fatty acid profiles contribute to cellular health, energy metabolism, and mitochondrial function. Researchers in nutrition, metabolic disease, and therapeutic monitoring trust this method to track how diet and treatment influence lipid dynamics. This analysis is critical for studies aiming to optimize nutrition or understand lipid-based disease mechanisms. Ultimately, fatty acid profiling empowers researchers to make data-driven decisions that shape interventions and improve patient outcomes.

Researcher preparing samples for fatty acid profiling using high-precision analytical instrumentation to assess lipid composition in biological tissues.

Industries We Support & Their Lipid Analysis Applications

Scientist analysing biological samples using high-precision instrumentation to support drug discovery, disease diagnostics, and personalized medicine in lipidomics research.

Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Nutraceutical, Neurochemistry, Brain Health

Lipidomics is a powerful tool that enables precise analysis and quantification of lipid species in biological systems. In medicine, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, neurochemistry, and brain health research, this approach unlocks new avenues for understanding and treating disease. Our lipid analysis services support these industries by providing

  • Identify novel biomarkers
  • Screen & validate new targets
  • Identify new target drugs
  • Accelerate drug development
  • Disease diagnostics
  • Gain new insight on disease mechanism
  • Evaluate new therapies
  • Personalized medicine
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Scientist preparing samples for lipidomics analysis to assess nutritional content, food safety, and functional ingredients in food and herbal products.

Food & Beverage, Nutritional Health, Herbal Medicine

Lipidomics can provide unique insights into food and nutritional health by analyzing lipid content, composition, and behaviour. This enables us to assess ingredient quality, ensure safety, and optimize nutritional benefits. Our lipid analysis applications for the food, nutrition, and herbal medicine industries include

  • Functional ingredient assessment
  • Nutritional profiling
  • Identify bioactive compounds in waste byproducts
  • Develop formulation & efficient absorption strategies
  • Terpene profiling
  • Food adulteration detection & monitoring
  • Food safety
  • Food origin
Scientist preparing lipid samples for analysis to support agricultural research, animal nutrition, and soil health assessment using high-precision lab instrumentation.

Agriculture, Animal Feed, Animal Health, Environment, Soil Health

Lipid analysis plays a crucial role in understanding and improving agricultural and environmental health. It helps assess animal health and nutrition, soil quality, and plant-microbe interactions. Our lipidomics services support these areas by offering applications such as

  • Animal health
  • Animal feed development
  • Fodder nutritional profiling
  • Soil health & fertility
  • Soil microbial composition
  • Plant terpene profiling
  • Plant-microbe interaction (plant stress, growth & development)
Scientist preparing lipid samples for analysis to support environmental and industrial applications such as pollutant profiling, product validation, and biofuel development.

Biofuel, Marine & Seafood, Biomaterials, Mining & Excavation, Cosmetics, Personal Care, Environment

Lipidomics is a powerful tool that extends beyond human health, enabling improvements in industrial and environmental applications. From biofuel development to waste reduction strategies, lipid analysis provides critical insights for optimizing product quality, enhancing sustainability, and ensuring environmental safety. Our lipid analysis services for these industries include

  • Material quality
  • Product validation
  • Product shelf life
  • Product life cycle
  • Process optimization
  • Pollutant profiling
  • Pollution control
  • Soil health & fertility
  • Waste reduction strategies
  • Water Quality

Why Client’s Choose Lipid Insight?

Award-Winning Analytical Expertise

  • Validated, peer-reviewed workflows to eliminate project delays
  • Regulatory compliance ensures high-confidence, reproducible results
  • Save time and resources while maintaining scientific rigour

State-of-the-Art Platforms and Methods

  • Advanced LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, GC-FID, UHPLC-QTOF, and Orbitrap HRAM-MS/MS platforms
  • High-sensitivity lipidomics data with robust quantification and reproducibility
  • Tailored workflows for biofluids, tissues, and cell lines

Collaborative Multidisciplinary Approach

  • Work with experts across bioinformatics, lipidomics, and imaging
  • Transform R&D challenges into actionable opportunities
  • Accelerate your project’s time-to-publication and grant readiness

✔️ Turnaround Time: Within 6 weeks from consultation to final report
✔️ Deliverables: Raw data, quantitative insights, visualizations tailored to your research needs

Our Happy Clients

Hear what some of our research partners have shared about collaborating with Lipid Insight. Their experiences reflect our dedication to precision, transparency, and partnership in lipidomics analysis.

  • “We appreciated the in-depth discussion and comprehensive review of your lab’s analytical capabilities. The meeting was essential for us to evaluate your validated methodologies and understand how your team could address the complexities of our SCFA and oxylipin analyses. Your proposal clearly demonstrated an understanding of the challenges inherent in these studies, and we value your collaborative, method-driven approach to meeting our project timelines and analytical requirements.”
    R&D Manager
    Food Industry
  • “Dr. Thomas is a scientist par excellence whose deep expertise in lipid analytics and reproducibility has established him as the ‘go-to’ resource for resolving complex lipidomic challenges. His insights have consistently supported our biomarker discovery workflows and expedited our data validation process.”
    Principal Investigator
    Memorial University

What You Get With Our Analytical Package

Sample Preparation and Extraction

Our team tailors extraction and sample preparation protocols to your specific matrix, leveraging validated methods that maintain lipid integrity across diverse sample types (e.g., plasma, tissue, cell culture). This step ensures high recovery rates and minimizes matrix effects, laying a solid foundation for downstream analyses.

Rigorous Quality Control

We integrate internal standards, blank controls, and spike recovery checks as part of our routine QC process. Final data is subject to review and signoff by our senior management and scientific team, ensuring that every dataset meets the highest standards of accuracy and reproducibility.

Advanced Statistics & Lipid Bioinformatics

Beyond basic quantification, our data analysis pipeline includes robust statistical evaluation (univariate, multivariate) and lipid bioinformatics. We leverage specialized software tools and domain expertise to provide actionable insights—ideal for biomarker discovery, pathway analysis, and systems lipidomics.

Quantitative & Qualitative Lipid Analysis

Our platform enables precise lipid identification and quantification across a broad range of lipid classes. We deploy advanced LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, GC-FID, and Orbitrap HRAM-MS/MS technologies to deliver structural confirmation and absolute quantitation, supporting studies in disease phenotyping, nutritional analysis, and environmental lipidomics.

Efficient Turnaround Time

Recognizing the urgency of your research timelines, we provide a standard 6-week turnaround for comprehensive datasets—from consultation to final report. For accelerated needs, expedited analysis within 2 weeks is available for select studies, ensuring you meet grant deadlines or project milestones.

Detailed Electronic Report

You will receive a comprehensive electronic report detailing: All data is delivered in a format ready for grant submissions, regulatory compliance, or peer-reviewed publication.

Technical Details

Methodologies, including instrument platforms (LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, GC-FID, Orbitrap HRAM-MS/MS) and validated extraction protocols

Injection volumes, replicates, and calibration data

Lipid identity and absolute quantitation in tabular format

Statistical and bioinformatic analyses tailored to your study aims

High-resolution visualizations and raw data for further exploration

Lipidomics is the comprehensive study of lipid species, pathways, and networks within biological systems. As a branch of metabolomics, it focuses on identifying and quantifying thousands of structurally diverse lipids using advanced analytical technologies like LC‑MS/MS, GC‑MS, and Orbitrap HRAM‑MS/MS.

Lipidomics provides critical insight into:

  • Metabolic regulation and cell signalling
  • Disease mechanisms such as inflammation, cancer, neurodegeneration, and metabolic disorders
  • Biomarker discovery for diagnostics or therapeutic monitoring
  • Nutritional research, including dietary lipid absorption and fatty acid metabolism

By integrating lipidomics into your workflow, you gain high-resolution data on lipid composition and function—enabling more informed hypotheses, better stratification of cohorts, and accelerated progress toward publication or product development.

We provide four core lipidomics services tailored to different research needs:

  • Targeted Lipidomics for absolute quantification of known lipid species using validated LC-MS/MS methods.
  • Untargeted Lipidomics for broad, discovery-driven profiling of lipidomes across sample types.
  • Fatty Acid Profiling for detailed quantification of short- and long-chain fatty acids, including SCFAs and PUFAs.
  • Complex Lipidomics for in-depth subclass analysis such as oxylipins, ether lipids, and phospholipids using Orbitrap HRAM-MS/MS and other platforms.

Each service includes validated workflows, quality control steps, and customizable panels.

We deliver full-service results—including consultation, data acquisition, analysis, and reporting—within 6 weeks. This timeline includes:

  • Sample receipt and preparation
  • Analytical runs (e.g., LC-MS/MS, GC-FID)
  • Bioinformatics and statistical processing
  • Delivery of raw data, visualizations, and quantitative reports

Urgent timelines may be accommodated based on project scope and platform availability.

Every project includes:

  • Raw data files (e.g., .mzML, .cdf)
  • Quantitative results (absolute or relative depending on study type)
  • Data visualizations (e.g., PCA plots, volcano plots, lipid class distributions)
  • Optional bioinformatic interpretation or assistance with manuscript preparation is also available upon request.

We work with a wide range of biological and environmental matrices, including:

  • Plasma, serum, and whole blood
  • Tissue biopsies and homogenates
  • Cultured cells and extracellular vesicles
  • Plant tissue, food products, and soil extracts

Custom protocols can be developed for non-standard sample types.

We offer free pre-project consultations to help define the best approach for your research goals. For example:

  • Use targeted panels if you need reproducible quantification for a clinical trial or regulatory submission.
  • Choose untargeted workflows for biomarker discovery or hypothesis generation.
  • Select fatty acid profiling for nutritional, metabolic, or mitochondrial research.

We’ll match instrumentation and analytical methods to your budget, timeline, and required outcome confidence.

Yes. All lipidomics services follow internally validated protocols that align with peer-reviewed methods and regulatory best practices. Each batch includes appropriate controls and calibration standards to ensure:

  • Data reproducibility
  • Quantitative integrity
  • Platform comparability across time

Instruments are routinely calibrated, and select services may meet GLP-like standards if required.

Absolutely. Our deliverables are designed to meet the expectations of:

  • Peer-reviewed journals (e.g., quantitative tables, full method transparency)
  • Granting agencies (e.g., reproducibility, confidence intervals)
  • Cross-cohort comparison studies (via standardized workflows)

We can also support you with additional documentation, method references, and co-author contributions where appropriate.

Our differentiators include:

  • Broad Instrumentation Suite: LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, GC-FID, UHPLC-QTOF, Orbitrap HRAM-MS/MS, and DESI-MS imaging.
  • Domain-Specific Panels: Pre-built and customizable panels targeting inflammation, cardiovascular risk, energy metabolism, and more.
  • End-to-End Project Support: From study design to final report—including bioinformatics and visualization.
  • Collaborative Model: We act as an extension of your lab, not just a vendor.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Our Panels & Assays

Complex Lipids Targeted Panel

Accurate quantitation of complex lipid classes including phospholipids, sphingolipids, and glycerolipids using validated HRAM-MS/MS workflows.

Proximal Lipid Content Assay

Gravimetric and MS-based quantification of total lipids, triglycerides, phospholipids, and omega fatty acid subclasses across diverse sample types.

Fatty Acid Profiling Panel

Comprehensive GC-MS profiling of saturated, unsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids including omega-3/6, CLA isomers, and hydrocarbon derivatives.

Active Microbial Lipid Assay

PLFA, trans/cis ratios, and bacterial lipid fingerprints profiled to assess microbial community activity in environmental or host-associated matrices.

Plant Lipids Panel

Targeted profiling of galactolipids, phytosterols, phospholipids, and ceramides in plant tissue using integrated LC-HRAM-MS/MS and GC workflows.

Food Lipids Panel

Quantitative analysis of neutral lipids, triacylglycerols, and dietary fatty acid isomers in food and nutraceutical matrices using LC-MS and GC-FID.

Environmental Stress Lipidomics Panel

Oxidized phospholipids and stress-responsive lipid species quantified across membrane lipid subclasses using LC-MS/MS and GC platforms.

Neurolipidomics Panel

Spatial and homogenate profiling of plasmalogens, sphingolipids, and storage lipids in neural tissues using validated LC-HRAM-MS/MS.

Clinical Lipidomics Panel

Integrated lipid profiling of phospholipids, ceramides, vitamins, and acyl-linked metabolites in clinical biospecimens using UHPLC-QTOF and Orbitrap MS.

Premium Complex Lipid Assay

High-resolution quantification of ether lipids, MADAGs, and stereospecific glycerophospholipids using advanced HRAM-MS/MS.

Targeted Lipid Panel

Focused detection of terpenes, oxylipins, acylcarnitines, phenolic acids, and fat-soluble vitamins using LC-MS and GC-MS platforms.

Carnitine & Acyl-Lipid Assay

Quantitative profiling of carnitines, acyl-CoAs, and neurolipid intermediates using LC-HRAM-MS and SPME-GC-MS for integrative metabolic insights.

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