Special fat cells known as brown adipocytes help maintaining body temperature by converting calory-rich nutrients into heat. This protects from gaining excess weight and metabolic disorders. An ...

Being cold could be the key to losing weight this winter, thanks to a special type of fat. Unlike white fat, which serves as energy reserves for the body, brown fat converts calories into heat when we ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cell Applications, Inc. is pioneering a new era with the release of Brown Fat Preadipocytes (i-HBrPAd), a first-of-its-kind cellular model derived from pluripotent stem ...

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When lab cell cultures were given extra ACBP, their ability to burn fat and generate heat was reduced. The researchers then created mice with the ACBP gene removed only in brown fat cells and exposed ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The next breakthrough in anti-aging medicine might come from a surprising source: fat. But not just any ...

While white fat stores calories, brown fat burns them. A new study, appearing in the journal Cell, reveals that brown fat improves metabolic health by providing nutrients important to other organs, ...

We’ve all done it before – spent time and effort on pointless tasks just so we look busy when the boss walks past. But now scientists have discovered a new type of fat cell in the body that does the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found out how some fat cells are turned into calorie-burning brown fat known as brown adipose tissue rather than into the white fat associated with obesity. The ...

Researchers have uncovered a new molecular pathway for stimulating the body to burn fat - a discovery that could help fight obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In a study published in the ...

It’s the riskiest type of fat to carry, but scientists have been studying belly fat for decades. Here’s what you can glean ...