Researchers at McMaster University have revealed a novel link between body fat (adipose tissue) and anxiety, shedding light ...

Their findings were published Monday in the journal Nature. What’s unclear from the new study is how long fat cells can remember obesity. “Fat cells are long-lived cells. On average, they live ...

Fat cells play a surprising role in combating parasites, according to a study published today (October 14) in Science Immunology, which finds that fatty tissue surrounding the intestinal tracts of ...

The study reveals how ER-stressed adipocytes remotely regulate UPR activation in hepatocytes through the secretion of ceramide (Cer), a fat molecule that plays a major role in cell structure ...

If fat cells become metabolically stressed and dysfunctional, they start churning out chunks of mitochondria that serve as warning signals to the heart of potential catastrophe, suggest the authors of ...

Among the lesser-spotlighted roles of the immune system is how a particular T cell helps maintain homeostasis—fostering a balanced and stable metabolic environment—in fat cells. It's a role ...