“There’s enough data out there to say that beige fat is good for human health,” says Bruce Spiegelman, a researcher at the ...

A new mouse study suggests that "beige" fat surrounding blood vessels can send calming signals to the arteries—revealing an ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising new role for the HSL protein: beyond breaking down fat, it also works inside the nucleus of fat cells to keep them functioning properly. When HSL is missing, ...

Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered a completely new mechanism by which fat cells (adipocytes) control how they store and release fat. Published today in Nature Chemical ...

Obesity causes hypertension. Hypertension causes cardiovascular disease. And cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of ...

Abdominal fat is not a uniform tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, and ...

For decades, weight loss drugs have tried to coax the body into burning more energy, but the most aggressive approaches have ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

Researchers created a targeted fat loss therapy using light-sensitive nanoparticles that activate fat-burning processes inside adipocytes, offering a new direction for localized obesity treatment ...