Fat cells, or adipocytes, are amongst the largest cells in the human body. They form a thick insulating layer under the skin which serves to cushion us as well as to store energy. In this image the ...

The cells were those of an unknown African-American girl aged 13. You're left wondering who owns the stuff our bodies are made of. If that worries you, then Catts offers a way to ease your troubles.

Adipogenesis and adipocyte physiology have been widely studied in vitro using two cell culture models: 3T3-L1 and OP9. 3T3-L1 cells were originally isolated from clones of Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts. 1 ...

Fat cells, or adipocytes, are amongst the largest cells in the human body. They form a thick insulating layer under the skin that serves to cushion us as well as to store energy.

After we found them computationally, we were also able to see them under the microscope. ... Cell nuclei are red. Adipocytes ...

First, off she compared body fat measurements from over 800 people to the size of their fat cells, as viewed under a microscope. She found that people with more body fat also had larger fat cells ...

A video from Cambridge University's Under the Microscope series reveals a battle to the death between a white blood cell and a cancer cell. The T cell (green), which is only 10 microns long ...

About 16% of adults worldwide (2.5 billion people) are obese, and 37 million children under the age of five are overweight; the prevalence of both conditions has more than doubled between 1990 and ...