Rather just storing calories like ordinary white fat cells, the beige cells ravenously consume calories faster than cancer cells do. It's barely entered human testing phases but the treatment is ...

studies show that “fat cell memory” can make the body nostalgic for its previous, bigger size and will do all it can to get back there – regardless of how you lost weight in the first place.

With around a quarter of all obese individuals are healthy, scientists are trying to work out why some obese people become unhealthy while others do ... fat (adipose) tissue, and on the gene activity ...

Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have made a breakthrough in ...

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The Mediterranean diet is one of the most well-researched eating patterns for health. Decades of research show it can improve ...

The new atlas shows the types of cells in fat tissue and their functions but doesn’t clarify if the differences cause ...

Nathan Blow looks ... a system like this is clear: it can be automated. “You can grow cells in tissue culture and then say, 'I want to wound them at midnight'. The system will do that, and ...

Our body size, sex, muscle-to-fat ratio, how much water is in our system to dilute a drink, and certain genetic mutations all play key roles. So does the ... that damage looks like it can recover ...

Liposuction and plastic surgery aren't often mentioned in the same breath as cancer. But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors ...

Looking at their wrappers, most bars seem like they would ... than protein or fat. All carbs are converted to glucose, a sugar that enters the bloodstream and is used by cells for energy, Bonci ...