A new international study led by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has characterized the populations of fat ...

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 ...