http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Fat is stored in the body in two distinct ways, Yale researchers have discovered. While the finding may not help people shed excess pounds, it may shed light on how to prevent health problems associated with weight gain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fat-packaged.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:33:20 EST news280143190 Whitehead Institute researchers have identified a previously unrecognized layer of genetic regulation that is necessary for the generation of undesirable white fat cells. When this regulation is disrupted, white fat cells are unable to accumulate lipid droplets or mature from their precursors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-noncoding-rnas-fat-cells.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:09:35 EST news279979761 Scientists from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have discovered a new signalling pathway that controls both obesity and atherosclerosis. The team demonstrated, for the first time, that mice deficient in the Wip1 gene were resistant to weight gain and atherosclerosis via regulation of the Ataxia telangiectasia mutated gene (ATM) and its downstream signalling molecule mTor. These groundbreaking findings were published in the journal Cell Metabolism on 3rd July and may provide significant new avenues for therapeutic interventions for obesity and atherosclerosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-scientists-mechanism-obesity-atherosclerosis-potentially.html Medical research Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:32:05 EST news260533919 From tracking activities within bacteria to creating images of molecules that make up human hair, several experiments have already demonstrated the unique abilities of the revolutionary imaging technique called multi-isotope imaging mass spectometry, or MIMS, developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). MIMS can produce high-resolution, quantitative three-dimensional images of stable isotope tags within subcellular compartments in tissue sections or cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-quantitative-imaging-application-gut-ear.html Medical research Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:45:33 EST news245857300