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

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. More than a decade ago, while studying fat cells in the mouse ear skin, Maksim Plikus and his colleagues observed a puzzling pattern in dye ...

The tissue, which they call "lipocartilage," superficially looks a lot like adipose tissue — better known as fat. It contains bulbous, balloon-like cells ... updates to histology and anatomy ...