In a paper published last month, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center introduced lipid nanoparticles — hollow, fatty ...

Absence of cysteine in mice coaxed fat-storing cells to burn energy, causing weight loss and offering potential therapeutic ...

Weight loss is known to improve health in obesity. A new study provides clues to how: by rejuvenating fat tissue and changing ...

Results reveal that weight loss has significant effects on cellular processes that are known to affect metabolic health and ...

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

Tribune News NetworkDohaSidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has contributed to a major international research study published in Nature Metabolism, titled ‘Towards a consensus atlas of human ...

Obesity plays a crucial role in how severely blood vessels are damaged—and this depends on where excessive fat accumulates in ...

Objective To investigate if treatment with a single injection of autologous micro-fragmented adipose tissue improved patient-reported health compared with a placebo saline injection in patients ...

Methods: To assess the potential function of NPC1 in obesity, we determined its expression in abdominal white adipose tissue (WAT) in relation to obesity. NPC1 mRNA was measured by RT-qPCR in lean ...

A new international study led by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has characterized the populations of fat cells in various fat tissues in the human body. Using innovative technology ...

“It underscores the novelty of our findings.” Next steps Fancher now plans to study gene expression in human adipose tissue. In collaboration with Dr. Caitlin Halbert, director of bariatric surgery at ...