A high-fat diet makes your fat cells larger, inflamed and dysfunctional, putting you at increased risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Now, scientists want to figure out how to get our bodies ...

Too much fat can be unhealthy: how fat cells, so-called adipocytes, develop, is crucial for the function of the fat tissue. That is why a team led by researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB ...

A new study has created the first single-cell map of how DNA is regulated and organized inside different cell-types of human fat tissue. The research shows that many genetic risk factors for abdominal ...

Metabolic diseases such as obesity, fatty liver, and insulin resistance are rapidly increasing worldwide, but fundamental methods to regulate the process of fat formation remain limited. In particular ...

Like bees breathing life into gardens, providing pollen and making flowers blossom, little cellular machines called mitochondria breathe life into our bodies, buzzing with energy as they produce the ...

Too much fat can be unhealthy: how fat cells, so-called adipocytes, develop, is crucial for the function of the fat tissue. That is why a team led by researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB ...

Obesity arises from both the expansion of white adipose cells and an increase in their number. In other words, fat is not inherently harmful. Its health impact depends on the size of adipose cells, ...

Skin fibrosis is an often-painful condition wherein the skin thickens and hardens, making it difficult to move. And with no effective treatments currently available, patients are left with few avenues ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We tend to talk about body fat as if it follows a simple rule: the less you have, the healthier you are. It's an idea that shows ...