Individuals who were conceived in colder seasons are more likely to show higher brown adipose tissue activity, increased ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

To better understand what might be happening inside fat tissues, Yeger-Lotem and her ... a global project that aims to map ...

(CNN)-- You know that fat in your ... similar to a human embryonic stem cell. That is, the cell could be "coached" into becoming any type of tissue or cell in the body. It takes about four weeks ...

From just four smartphone photographs, the app constructs a three-dimensional model of the human body from which it can determine body composition—how and where fat and muscle tissues are distributed ...

“Mice are a good model for human obesity . . . but it seems to me that, for diet, the mouse literature has gone off track,” said Craig Warden, who studies the genetics of body fat accumulation at the ...