A team from Rutgers University observed that mice lacking a specific gene developed a powerful form of brown fat. This ...

The color difference between white and brown fat isn’t just cosmetic. Brown fat cells contain numerous mitochondria—cellular power plants that give these cells their distinctive brown color.

Suppressing a transcription factor induced energy burning in fat cells, offering therapeutic targets to treat ... effective anti-obesity drugs than simply activating energy-burning brown fat. “Having ...

Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown ... of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine and senior author of the study in Aging Cell. “This mouse model performs exercise better than ...

Body fat is a fact of life. We all have it, and many people would like to have less. But recent research is turning some of our assumptions about fat upside down. Scientists now believe there’s ...

The way we stigmatize fat is especially galling given how important our fat cells are. One type secretes ... But we don’t just have white fat; there is also brown adipose tissue, concentrated ...

“It’s a really interesting paper because it convincingly shows that there is a cell-autonomous mechanism for the induction of thermogenesis in fat cells that is not dependent on the sympathetic ...