New research uncovers that aging activates a new type of stem cell that rapidly produces fat cells, explaining why belly fat often expands in middle age.

Takeshi Yoneshiro and colleagues analyzed brown adipose tissue density, activity and thermogenesis in 683 healthy male and female individuals between ages 3 and 78 in Japan, whose parents were ...

Among 356 healthy young male volunteers, researchers in Japan found that those who were conceived in a cold season showed relatively higher brown adipose tissue activity. Brown adipose tissue is a ...

Much of the work devoted to exploring potential sex-specific differences in exercise or sports performance has been derived ...

They analyzed genes from two groups of male mice following different diets for over one year. One group ate a high-fat diet and gained weight and adipose tissue mass. The other group was leaner ...

Findings from an extreme 200km Arctic winter expedition indicate greater metabolic efficiency in women under such extreme ...

Much of the work devoted to exploring potential sex-specific differences in exercise or sports performance has been derived from laboratory-based ...

The C57BL/6J male mice were fed a high-fat diet (HFD ... Mice were sacrificed and the epididymal visceral white adipose tissue (eWAT) was immediately washed by phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). The ...