Overweight & Obesity

Discovery shakes 60 years of certainty about fat metabolism

Scientists have known hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) as the enzyme that releases energy stored in our fat. Yet patients born without this protein do not become obese: on the contrary, they lose their adipose tissue, developing ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Fat breakdown in skin cells restarts hair growth in mice

National Taiwan University researchers, with collaborators in Taiwan and the US, report that adipocyte lipolysis activates epithelial hair follicle stem cells and drives hair regeneration via monounsaturated fatty acid signaling.

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