Despite having lower visceral fat, women show stronger associations between fat distribution and metabolic risk.

As the body ages, brown adipose tissue activity decreases, fewer calories are burned, and this can contribute to obesity and ...

As the body ages, brown adipose tissue activity decreases, fewer calories are burned, and this can contribute to obesity and ...

For 60 years, HSL was known for releasing energy from fat, but people born without it lose fat instead of gaining weight—a mystery that Prof. Langin and colleagues have now solved. After six decades ...

As the body ages, brown adipose tissue activity decreases, fewer calories are burned, and this can contribute to obesity and ...

Muscle-derived branched-chain amino acids support thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue, thereby helping maintain body temperature during impaired muscle function or physiological stress.

A new study has revealed that Alzheimer's disease breaks apart nerves and blood vessels in fat tissue throughout the body.

Scientists have known hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) as the enzyme that releases energy stored in our fat. Yet patients born without this protein do not become obese: on the contrary, they lose their ...

Targeting the cellular senescence (cells age and stop dividing) known as senotherapeutics, can help alleviate age-related ...

Bmal2 is a biological clock gene. In an article published in Metabolism, scientists show that mice with the Bmal2 gene ...

A newly discovered nuclear role for HSL reveals how imbalances in its location within fat cells may contribute to both ...