Research suggests a fat cell's "memory" of past obesity changes how it responds to food, and that may explain why keeping weight off is so difficult. Keeping weight off can be hard. Oftentimes it ...

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 ...

Now, a new international study led by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheba has characterized the populations of fat cells in various tissues in the human body.