When people talk about “burning fat,” it sounds like something melts away inside your body and vanishes. What actually happens is stranger and more elegant: most of the fat you lose leaves your body ...

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

Scientists have identified a protein that acts as a kind of traffic controller for fat inside cells, revealing a mechanism that could help explain how the body regulates energy storage and why things ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Professor Miguel Ángel del Pozo Barriuso, who heads the Mechanoadaptation and Caveolae Biology group at the CNIC, has ...

Researchers have determined how a key protein activates brown fat by expanding blood vessels and nerves in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Understanding how cells become fat cells is a crucial part of tackling conditions like obesity and type 2 diabetes – and a new ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered that a molecule which can sense the swelling of fat cells also controls a signaling pathway that allows fat cells to take up and store excess ...

A new mouse study suggests that "beige" fat surrounding blood vessels can send calming signals to the arteries—revealing an unexpected biological link between fat tissue and heart health. A colored ...

The findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest a new way to tackle obesity that focuses on increasing how much energy the body burns instead of reducing appetite ...

Extracts made from parts of the cashew plant that are usually thrown away when the nuts are processed commercially were found to significantly limit the development of fat cells and the accumulation ...