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 ...

Scientists have produced the first detailed characterization of the changes that weight loss causes in human fat tissue by ...

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 ...

Scientists have produced the first detailed characterization of the changes that weight loss causes in human fat tissue by ...

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, posing a significant burden on people’s health and on healthcare systems. It is a major risk factor for ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Consuming fewer calories is largely accepted as a way to improve health and lose weight, but a recently published study in ...

Although adipose tissue quantity (volume) is undoubtedly linked to cardiovascular risk, recent human data indicate that differences in fat tissue quality, which can be examined directly by ...

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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...