A new mouse study suggests that "beige" fat surrounding blood vessels can send calming signals to the arteries—revealing an ...

A deep dive into the scientific shift toward multi-target obesity therapeutics and its implications for metabolic health and ...

BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) was found to inhibit the browning of white adipose tissue in response to cold exposure in mice, offering a potential new drug target for a therapeutic strategy to ...

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 ...

Background: Genetic studies have implicated the NPC1 gene (Niemann Pick type C1) in susceptibility to obesity. Methods: To assess the potential function of NPC1 in obesity, we determined its ...