NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The next breakthrough in anti-aging medicine might come from a surprising source: fat. But not just any fat—brown fat, a special type that burns energy rather than ...

It’s a game-changing discovery for a kind of body tissue we’re barely beginning to understand. We already knew that the mitochondria of brown fat use glucose and fatty acids to produce heat an ...

It is sometimes called “good” fat. Brown adipose tissue, also known as brown fat, is one of two types of fat that humans and other mammals have. The other type of fat is white or yellow fat.

A team from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School found that mice lacking a specific gene developed an unusually potent form of ...

The existing method, positron emission tomography (PET), identifies active brown fat, but the team’s MRI research shows presence of the actual tissue. This finding is significant as brown fat ...

Dicer1–miR-328–Bace1 signalling controls brown adipose tissue differentiation and function. Nature Cell Biology , 2016; 18 (3): 328 DOI: 10.1038/ncb3316 Cite This Page : ...

BMI and percentage of body fat both had significant negative correlations with brown adipose tissue, whereas resting metabolic rate had a significant positive correlation. The percentage of young ...

However, adipose tissue (fat) has multiple cell types, and they each matter. There are adipocytes (fat cells) — which can be white, brown, beige, or pink — as well as immune cells, fibroblasts ...

"This is great news for people with insulin resistance and diabetes, and suggests that brown fat may prove to be an important anti-diabetic tissue." Previous research has suggested that brown fat ...

In this context, the researchers examined hundreds of microRNAs in the brown fat of obese mice. They found a decreased level of one particular microRNA, miR328, in the fat of the obese animals.

Analysis of tissues, cellular reactions and glucose metabolism showed that the colder temperatures drove significant uptake in glucose in the brown fat tissue. Meanwhile, glucose signals could ...