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Experiments suggest research avenues for treating excess fat storage and obesity

A team of scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and Yale University have begun to unravel the complex process by which cells take in and store microscopic fat molecules, suggesting new directions for further research into ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers reveal one reason why fat cells fail

Yale University researchers have found one of the mechanisms that cause fat cells to lose their ability to efficiently store and use energy -- a scientific mystery and a phenomenon that contributes to a major public health ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mouse stem cell study offers new insights into body fat distribution

New research being presented today at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Nottingham shows that adding fat to mouse stem cells grown in the lab affects their response to the signals that push them ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Findings show insulin -- not genes -- linked to obesity

Researchers have uncovered new evidence suggesting factors other than genes could cause obesity, finding that genetically identical cells store widely differing amounts of fat depending on subtle variations ...

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created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Ferroelectric switching discovered for first time in soft biological tissue

The heart's inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so with a new finding. Engineers at the University of Washington have discovered an electrical property in arteries not seen before in mammalian ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New evidence that bacteria in large intestine have a role in obesity

Bacteria living in people's large intestine may slow down the activity of the "good" kind of fat tissue, a special fat that quickly burns calories and may help prevent obesity, scientists are reporting in ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cheap beads offer alternative solar-heating storage

A cheap material that can store heat energy collected from the sun during the day that can be released slowly over night has been developed by researchers in the India. The material based on paraffin wax and stearic acid ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Knocking out key protein in mice boosts insulin sensitivity

By knocking out a key regulatory protein, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland dramatically boosted ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

No need to shrink guts to have a larger brain

Brain tissue is a major consumer of energy in the body. If an animal species evolves a larger brain than its ancestors, the increased need for energy can be met by either obtaining additional sources of food or by a trade-off ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toxins could make you fat - depending on gut bugs

Could persistent pollutants like DDT and PCBs or chemicals found in plastics be making you fat or diabetic? The answer may depend on what sort of bacteria you have churning around in your gut, according to Cornell scientists.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Omega-3 key in reducing diabetes and heart disease

(Medical Xpress) -- Omega-3 can help to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease especially as people age, says Massey University nutrition professor Bernhard Breier, co-author of a new international ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Food without preservatives -- thanks to self-cleaning equipment

Eclairs and other pastries should taste light and fluffy. If the pastry dough contains too many microorganisms, though, it will not rise in the oven. Now, researchers have devised a system that cleans itself ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Obesity clues in humans may be unearthed first in a worm

Obesity is not regarded as an epidemic among tiny worms that dine on bacteria — but for humans battling weight gain with seemingly insatiable appetites, research on a soil-dwelling roundworm may lead to clues for weight ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell dysfunction linked to obesity and metabolic disorders

By measuring the radioactive isotope carbon-14, scientists at Karolinska Institutet have revealed an association between lipid cell dysfunction and diseases such as obesity, diabetes and blood lipid disorders. The study, ...

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created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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