September 17, 2024 by Nottingham Trent University Pharmacological pan-PHD inhibition induces Ucp1 expression in mouse and human adipocytes in vitro. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51718-7Removing a specific gene from fat tissue could fool the body into speeding up metabolism and burning more calories, a new study has found. It is hoped that the research,...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Obesity afflicts approximately 42 percent of the U.S. adult population and contributes to the onset of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer, and other conditions. While popular healthy diet mantras advise against midnight snacking, few studies have comprehensively investigated the simultaneous effects of late eating on the...
by Josh Barney, University of Virginia New University of Virginia research is revealing how genetic differences in the fat in men’s and women’s bodies affect the diseases each sex is likely to get. Researchers Mete Civelek, Warren Anderson and their collaborators have determined that differences in fat storage and formation in men and women strongly affect the activity of 162 different genes found...
Posted Today Many people struggle to keep their weight in check as they get older. Now new research at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has uncovered why that is: Lipid turnover in the fat tissue decreases during ageing and makes it easier to gain weight, even if we don’t eat more or exercise less than before. The...
A large team of researchers from the U.S. and China has succeeded in identifying a number of RNA fragments found in human fat tissue. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine the group describes their study of the fragments they found and their possible links with obesity. A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the...
