An experimental technology offers new hope to patients who have suffered a severe burn. The product, from New York biotech firm RenovaCare, is rooted in cutting-edge stem cell research. The ...

Research has shown that the fatter your body becomes, the harder it becomes to burn that excess fat but a new protein could help change things for the better.

T cells burn out just a few hours after encountering cancer tumors Why do T cells become exhausted within a few hours of bumping into cancer?

We’ve known for nearly a century that UV radiation is linked to skin cancer, but modern advice about sunburn can be confusing ...

While glucose, or sugar, is a well-known fuel for the brain, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have demonstrated that ...

A master gene that orders fat cells to burn energy rather than store it has been found. Tinkering with it made mice lose weight as their fat-storing cells were converted into fat-burning cells ...

The JMS Burn Center is the first in the world to use a new regenerating skin cell technology to help burn and wound patients.

Researchers at UC San Francisco have figured out how to turn ordinary white fat cells, which store calories, into beige fat cells that burn calories to maintain body temperature. The discovery in mice ...

Independent of a known protein The beige fat cells that researchers were already familiar with generate heat in the same way as brown fat cells, via a protein called UCP1.

Scientists discover how to transform white fat cells into calorie-burning beige cells, paving the way for weight-loss treatments.

A key function of our immune system is to detect and eliminate foreign pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. Immune cells like T cells do this by distinguishing between different types of ...