In collaboration with researchers in South Korea, a team from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has discovered a ...

Brown fat has long carried a kind of scientific promise. Unlike the more familiar white fat that stores energy, this darker ...

Over the past few years, a new class of medications has transformed the treatment of obesity. Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro work primarily by reducing appetite, helping people eat less and ...

A high-fat diet makes your fat cells larger, inflamed and dysfunctional, putting you at increased risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Now, scientists want to figure out how to get our bodies ...

Scientists reveal a hidden “wiring system” in brown fat that could help turn your body into a calorie-burning furnace.

Scientists have discovered that a protein called SLIT3 is essential for making the body's calorie-burning brown fat work properly.

Visceral fat surrounds organs and triggers chronic inflammation, leading to insulin resistance. Dr Madhumita shares how to ...

When cells experience enough chronic stress, they can stop dividing permanently. In this state of cellular limbo, known as replicative senescence, cells remain alive but no longer proliferate.

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central finding of a new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Claudio Villanueva, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Over the ...