Animal studies have established the previously unknown role of a protein that helps activate brown fat, a tissue that can ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. When Wolfrum and his team used single-cell RNA sequencing on mouse fat cells they found that adipocytes came in 10 varieties. These findings expand the limited ...

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, believe they have found a "cheat code" for burning calories in the fat-burning mechanism beige fat. Three types of fat cells exist in ...

Researchers have also discovered a third type of fat, called “beige fat”, which is found within pockets of white fat around the body. Results from animal tests and laboratory experiments using ...

“Having brown fat is beneficial when you think about metabolic health, which is beyond simply body weight regulation,” he noted. “In that sense, fundamentally understanding how brown and beige fat are ...

Dr. Liu led a study published in Cell Metabolism June 3, 2014, showing that a molecular pathway called mTORC1 controls the conversion of unhealthy white fat into beige fat, an appealing target for ...

In the NCI-supported study, Dr. Ahituv and his colleagues used a gene-editing tool called CRISPRa to turn ordinary white fat cells, whose main function is to store energy, into energy-consuming beige ...

She also found that trehalose increased the production of energy-consuming beige fat cells within white fat tissue and reduced glucose levels in healthy mice. “Use of trehalose as a supplement ...

Currently, we are primarily exploring white adipose ‘beiging’, the conversion of white adipocytes into beige fat cells, brown-like adipocytes found within white fat depots. Unlike white adipocytes, ...