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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 same thing, burning energy and producing heat with po… Continue reading New class of fat cells that do pointless busywork show weight-loss promise
By suppressing just one protein, stores of white fat can switch to becoming calorie-burning beige fat, in a feat that so far has eluded scientists working on this long-studied area of obesity treatment.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, … Continue reading Weight-loss breakthrough hacks white fat to turn calorie-burning beige
In a major breakthrough, scientists have identified a rather elusive protein involved in the production of ‘good’ fat, brown fat, and found it can even boost the formation of these cells in white fat. Understanding how to ‘switch on’ the creation of th… Continue reading The protein that dials up ‘good’ fat production has been discovered
Finding the molecular key that will see fat tissue turn from white to brown has huge potential for obesity treatments, and for weight loss in general. Yet the cellular code has been a hard one to crack. Now, scientists believe they’ve edged a step clos… Continue reading Scientists get fat cells do the heavy lifting for weight loss
Finding the molecular key that will see fat tissue turn from white to brown has huge potential for obesity treatments, and for weight loss in general. Yet the cellular code has been a hard one to crack. Now, scientists believe they’ve edged a step clos… Continue reading Scientists get fat cells do the heavy lifting for weight loss
There are different types of fat in the body that perform very different roles, and by promoting the production of one over the other scientists hope to develop new forms of treatment for conditions like obesity and diabetes. Scientists in China have i… Continue reading Immune signaling molecule boosts fat-burning to prevent obesity
The human body carries different types of fat cells, and some of them are more desirable than others. White fat stores our surplus energy as lipids that give rise to love handles and beer bellies, whereas brown fat burns off calories to generate heat a… Continue reading Brown fat cell discovery opens new doors for obesity treatment
In 2012, researchers opened up a promising new avenue in the pursuit of advanced treatments for obesity with the discovery of “beige fat,” a type of adipose tissue genetically distinct from white and brown fat that plays an important role in the way ca… Continue reading Rare type of immune cell found to protect against obesity in mice