Scientists have discovered tumors can tap a nontraditional pathway to acquire lipoproteins—molecules that transport fat in ...

Eating a high-fat diet containing a large amount of oleic acid—a type of fatty acid commonly found in olive oil—could drive ...

Popular belief holds that our senses gather information only about the external world, but many of our sensory systems also monitor our internal environment, enabling the body to regulate its own ...

High-fat diets rapidly deplete IL-22, weakening gut defenses and triggering silent inflammation. Unsaturated fats may help ...

Some of this damage may be reversible with antioxidants. The research, published in Molecular Cell, focused on how high-fat diets affect enzymes that control metabolism—the process of converting ...

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are located at the top of the hematopoietic ... Therefore, this review summarizes the current progression in research on the effects of a high-fat diet (HFD) and energy ...

Many factors lead to the frustrating cycle of weight gain and weight loss — but the driving force may be fat cells keeping a memory of obesity. That’s according to a recent study that was ...

In previous work, White's lab has found that a high-fat diet stimulates cells to turn on many of the same signaling pathways that are linked to chronic stress. In the new study, the researchers ...

Credit: Shutterstock Blocking Mitch, a protein that regulates energy control, prevents fat from accumulating in human cells. About a decade ago, a new generation of weight-loss drugs promised a ...