White fat is detested in modern societies as unaesthetic and a threat to health. Researchers are discovering ways that white fat gets changed into beige fat that burns energy rather than storing it.
A new study shows that suppressing a protein turns ordinary fat into a calorie burner and may explain why drug trials attempting the feat haven't been successful. Researchers at UC San Francisco have ...
Researchers at UC San Francisco have figured out how to turn ordinary white fat cells, which store calories, into beige fat cells that burn calories to maintain body temperature. The discovery in mice ...