Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

The new atlas shows the types of cells in fat tissue and their functions but doesn’t clarify if the differences cause ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

The liver and pancreas are the main actors in glucose metabolism, but not the only ones. Muscles, adipose tissue and the brain play different roles. However, the prize for the best new actor in ...

There is a common perception that weight cycling, often called “yo-yo dieting,” is detrimental to health. But new research ...

The work appears in the journal Immunity. Macrophages are specialized immune cells located in every tissue of the body, where they play crucial roles in maintaining tissue homeostasis, responding ...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A set of chameleon-like immune cells could be contributing to severe asthma in some patients. Intermediate group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) appear to ...

Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of sex-specific immune responses in obesity ...

1 Reproductive Medicine Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China 2 Department of Oncology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a ...

These solidlike knots, called amyloids, can be toxic to cells and kill off neural tissue. Some researchers suspect that such problematic protein aggregates might arise from improper control of ...