The burgeoning prevalence of obesity, affecting approximately one-third of adults, represents a profound challenge in modern health care, fostering co-morbidities such as diabetes, fatty liver, ...

A research team led by Prof. Li Yu from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health (SINH) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Xu Yong from the Affiliated Hospital ...

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. Until now researchers ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2024 about 1.4 billion adults globally had high blood pressure, medically known as hypertension. Hypertension is also considered the number one ...

Adipocytes, also known as fat cells, come in three main types: white, brown, and beige. White fat cells are structurally quite simple, comprising a single fat molecule and a few organelles. The ...

Moreover, bulk sequencing data led scientists to conclude that brown and beige fat cells express uncoupling protein 1 (Ucp1), which encodes the protein UCP1 that halts adenosine triphosphate (ATP) ...

Studies in mice suggest that beige fat surrounding blood vessels actively works to keep high blood pressure in check, promoting healthy vascular function even during obesity. Building on clinical ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University study shows that Notch signaling, a key biological pathway tied to development and cell communication, also plays an important role in the onset of obesity ...

In a recent study published in Nature Cell Biology, researchers report that adaptive brown adipose tissue growth is regulated by the exchange protein directly activated by cyclic adenosine ...