Our body fat may turn out to be a secret weapon in our everlasting fight against cancer. A new study released this week ...

This work showed those changes remained "long after the mice had lost weight," she said, and a similar identity shift might be happening in human fat cells, the data suggest. Further evidence came ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco have pioneered a groundbreaking approach to fighting cancer using engineered fat cells. By ...

A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in history.

New research has made a breakthrough in understanding how our cells manage to stay healthy by recycling important fat ...

Fat cells grown in a petri dish. Image by Ahituv Lab To see how they would work in human tissue, Ahituv and Nguyen teamed up with Jennifer Rosenbluth, MD, PhD, a breast cancer specialist at UCSF.

Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how our cells manage to stay healthy by recycling important fat molecules. Their study ...

The protein Spns1 helps transport fat molecules out of lysosomes, preventing harmful buildup and offering insights for rare ...

A team of researchers in the United States has developed a groundbreaking cancer treatment that starves tumors by leveraging ...

Liposuction and plastic surgery aren't often mentioned in the same breath as cancer. But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors ...

“We already routinely remove fat cells with liposuction and put them back via plastic surgery,” said Nadav Ahituv, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics and professor in the ...