Human fat storage and its propensity towards the formation of white fat cells has been explained by researchers examining DNA packaging. Plenty of attention has been paid in both medical and popular ...

Scientists now believe there’s a type of fat, hidden inside us, which could actually help make us thinner. This is called “brown fat ... something we modern humans rarely, if ever, experience.

who studies the beneficial effects of white and brown fat, and who was not involved in the study. "Shingo's work on amino acid metabolism showcases another point of view on this." The human body ...

Recruitment of brown adipose tissue (BAT ... been shown not only to enhance the presence and activity of BAT in lean humans but also to improve the metabolic profile of skeletal muscle to benefit ...

Building on previous links between the MCJ protein and metabolism, the new study found more MCJ in tissue samples from obese ...

“It will be interesting to see how that translates to humans, because the nature of the cell types is still controversial plus the impact on the blood flow might be different.” Adipose tissue comes in ...

“Rather than targeting the stem cells, targeting the mature fat provides a [therapeutic] avenue,” said Feldman. These results pinpoint the players in the fat-burning pathway in humans ... activating ...

Newly reported research in human tissue and in mice has uncovered a mechanism by which brown fat (brown adipose tissue; BAT) is converted into heat, and identified a control protein that may ...

White adipose tissue mostly stores energy, while brown fat (its cells have more mitochondria and that gives them a brown hue) is responsible for heat generation or thermogenesis, the process that ...