Fat molecules serve as energy storage for fat cells. They consist of three fatty acids attached to a backbone of glycerol. They are therefore also called triglycerides. It has long been suspected that molecules do not remain ...
Apr 3, 2023
0
545
What did the fat say to the brain? For years, it was assumed that hormones passively floating through the blood were the way that a person's fat—called adipose tissue—could send information related to stress and metabolism ...
Aug 31, 2022
0
92
New University of Virginia research is revealing how genetic differences in the fat in men's and women's bodies affect the diseases each sex is likely to get.
Sep 28, 2020
0
67
Dr. Ayse Sena Mutlu, a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor's Huffington Center On Aging, had an intriguing question. Is it possible to change the body's fat storage without changing eating habits?
Apr 16, 2020
0
198
1.9 billion people around the world are overweight. Of these, 650 million people are obese, which increases the risk of secondary diseases such as cancer. Professor Martin Klingenspor and his team at the Technical University ...
Jan 9, 2020
0
77
A team of researchers with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has identified three new classes of obesity-related adipocyte progenitor cells in humans. In their paper published in the journal ...
Scientists have discovered a molecular switch in the brain that regulates fat burning - and could provide a way to control weight gain following dieting.
Feb 13, 2018
0
1030
A University of Toronto (U of T) study on fruit flies has uncovered a gene that could play a key role in obesity in humans.
Feb 21, 2017
0
95
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that a protein often located on the surface of fat droplets within cells - and especially abundant in the muscles of endurance athletes - can kick-start the more efficient ...
Aug 25, 2016
2
328
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat-storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published ...
May 22, 2014
0
0
