OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationships of fat cell weight (FCW) as well as of estimated total adipose cell number to fasting plasma leptin concentration. DESIGN: Cross-sectional ...

Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems—not only weight gain but also an increased risk of ...

usually due to an accumulation of fat in greatly enlarged (hypertrophic) fat cells (adipocytes) in the abdomen. This so-called visceral fat leads to inflammation, which plays a critical role in ...

We actually have two completely different types of fat cells: Brown fat and white fat. And brown fat, as it turns out, has one incredibly cool—and useful—function. It can burn calories for you.

Your friends and family will likely applaud your substantial weight loss — but your cells may resist change. New research finds that obesity can trigger genetic modifications within fat cells ...

In the ongoing effort to find better ways to fight cancer, scientists have developed a creative approach that uses the body’s own fat cells in a surprising way. Instead of allowing tumors to consume ...

In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave — including halting fat development. “Since sound is non-material, acoustic stimulation ...

But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors of nutrition. Researchers at UC San Francisco used the gene editing technology ...

When they transplanted these cells from mice of various ages into another group of younger mice, they noticed the creation of large numbers of fat cells within the younger mice. However ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have figured out how to turn ordinary white fat cells, which store calories, into beige fat cells that burn calories to maintain body temperature. The discovery in mice ...