The health consequences of excess visceral fat tissue are well known. But there is another type of fat accumulation in the body that increases the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

Understanding how fat tissue forms and functions is crucial for addressing obesity and related metabolic diseases. However, adipose tissue, or body fat, behaves differently based on its location in ...

Ovarian cancer is known for its aggressive spread, often targeting fatty tissues in the abdomen. Now, a study published in Nature Communications by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Queen Mary ...

Adipose tissue functions as a dynamic organ that both stores energy and orchestrates systemic metabolism through the regulated handling of fatty acids. Under conditions of energy surplus, adipocytes ...

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is aggressive and hard to treat. But the role of fat tissue in how the cancer spreads may help point toward new understanding and treatments, according to a new ...

It is well known that obesity typically leads to inflammation and dysfunction of fat tissue that increases the risk of developing metabolic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. It is ...

Prediabetes may leave a lasting molecular "footprint" on adipose (fat) tissue which appears to make maintaining weight loss after bariatric surgery more difficult, according to new research being ...