Scientists are tackling society's growing obesity problem from all kinds of angles – and new research picks out a particular ...

Data based on basal metabolic rate of 1800 calories per day. NEAT: Nonexercise activity thermogenesis. Data taken from [39]. Obesity is a key noncommunicable disease that leads to serious ...

Experiments showed that when mitochondrial protein MCJ is removed from obese mice the animals produce more heat and lose ...

The researchers first identified what they described as reduced MCJ expression in human subcutaneous WAT (WATsc) during obesity, when AT thermogenesis is reduced. “… we show how MCJ expression ...

Obesity, which affects 650 million people worldwide, influences the development of cardiometabolic diseases and increases the ...

Spanish scientists have pinpointed a key protein in the fat-burning process that shields the body from obesity and metabolic ...

The Phillips lab focuses on adaptive thermogenesis, a process by which energy (such as caloric excess) is converted to heat, with an eye towards the development of new thermogenic agents. Currently, ...

2008-present: Obesity and Cancer: Transdisciplinary Views from Molecules to Health Policy (EPBI/MPHP 464). This course provides an overview of energy balance components (diet, physical activity, ...