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Connecting obesity, diabetes and the immune system using bioinformatics

Clues suggest anti-inflammatory macrophages are different in people with diabetes. The link between obesity and illness, particularly type 2 diabetes, is well known. Yet researchers are actively working to understand what it is about fat tissue that leads to metabolic disease. Studies in mice have shown that an increase in immune cells called macrophages in fat tissue...