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Hanging in front of the abdomen like an apron, the depot of visceral fat known as the omentum helps regulate immune responses.

The brain’s immune cells gobble up synapses in the hippocampi of rodents fed high-fat or high-sugar diets.

The oldest-known ice mummy consumed high amounts of fat.

A study of Shuar children in Ecuador provides a window into how the human body responds to infection in the sorts of conditions that shaped our species’ evolution.

A study of more than 450,000 people finds a certain genetic variant associated with eating more carbs is linked to a thicker waist and higher blood pressure, but less fat.  

Previously considered immobile, these cells swoop in to seal epithelial holes and clean up cellular detritus.  

The agency raided one that was using a stem cell-smallpox vaccine combo, and sent a warning to another to obey best practices.

Animals lacking a sense of smell stayed thinner than their smelling counterparts, despite eating the same amount.

In 2015, The Scientist dove deep into the latest research on aging, HIV, hearing, and obesity.

Researchers should pay closer attention to the diets they use to study obesity in mice, experts advise.

Obesity triggers a fatty acid synthesis pathway, which in turn helps drive T cell differentiation and inflammation.

Adipogenesis in mice has alternating genetic requirements throughout the animals’ lives.

The accumulation of fat within skeletal muscle, as happens with obesity, diminishes muscle performance.

Low doses of environmental chemicals can make animals gain weight. Whether they do the same to humans is a thorny issue.

Diverting the bile duct around a long stretch of the small intestine could treat obesity without cutting out chunks of the digestive tract.

The effect of a high-fat diet on murine T cells

A mouse's exposure to certain environmental chemicals can lead the animal—and its offspring and grandoffspring—to be overweight.

Scientists know how to turn on these fat-combusting cells. Can these energy burners be used to combat obesity?

Authors retract a paper on grizzlies’ metabolism after finding one person made up data.