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Fat cells, or adipocytes, that grow in close proximity to breast cancers can shift into other cell types that promote tumor growth, a new study by UT Southwestern researchers suggests.

estimate an individual’s body fat content.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have demonstrated a pathway by which abdominal fat, in particular fat surrounding the internal organs, may lead to type 2 diabetes.

The majority of applications, particularly in the body imaging, require the need to acquire images with and without fat suppression for enhanced visualization of various pathologies.

Increasing a protein concentrated in brown fat appears to lower blood sugar, promote insulin sensitivity, and protect against fatty liver disease by remodeling white fat to a healthier state.

A team of researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Touchstone Diabetes Center have successfully used CRISPR gene editing to turn fat cells normally used for storage into energy-burning cells.

Learn more about the link between fat tissue and disease at the Feb. 1 President’s Lecture

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Lowering iron content in fat cells prevented mice fed a high-fat diet from gaining excess weight and developing associated health problems by limiting the amount of lipids absorbed by the intestines

But since white fat cells have very few nerves, how do beige fat cells get the message that it’s cold outside?