Our body fat may turn out to be a secret weapon in our everlasting fight against cancer. A new study released this week ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco have pioneered a groundbreaking approach to fighting cancer using engineered fat cells. By ...

Cosmetic surgery has been an unlikely inspiration behind a cancer treatment discovery which could also help with diabetes ...

Liposuction and plastic surgery aren't often mentioned in the same breath as cancer.But they are the inspiration for a new ...

Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how our cells manage to stay healthy by recycling important fat molecules. Their study ...

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“We already routinely remove fat cells with liposuction and put them back via plastic surgery,” said Nadav Ahituv, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics and professor in the ...

Scientists transformed energy-storing white fat cells into calorie-burning 'beige' fat. Once implanted, they outcompeted tumors for resources, beating back five different types of cancer in lab ...

If you have ditched the diet only to see the weight creep on at an alarming rate, your body may have a high metabolic set point, meaning you will always put on the pounds faster than others. Serial di ...

When Heather was considering a facelift 10 years ago, she knew she wanted something natural. She didn’t want the typical ...

But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors of nutrition. Researchers at UC San Francisco used the gene editing technology ...