By recreating the structure of fat cells using a newly-developed computer method, Prof. Gefen and his team of researchers can determine how much mechanical load can be tolerated by fat cells, and ...

More than a decade ago, while studying fat cells in the mouse ear skin ... (LCs), and after a decade of investigation into their structure and function, the team published their report today in ...

less fat and no fat are en vogue. Yet fats are essential for cell survival as they form the basic structure for the biological membranes which separate cells from the environment and form ...

are smaller than fat cells and lack a lipid depot. They churn out molecules that combine into a stiff latticework called the extracellular matrix, which provides structure and support to the ...

Perhaps they were fat cells ... to results published today in Science. Plikus calls them lipochondrocytes, or LCs. The cells appear to simultaneously provide structure (like cartilage) and ...

"Adipocytes [fat cells] are known to go through a kind of identity crisis in obesity — they kind of forget who they are and what they are supposed to be doing," Hinte told Live Science.

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 ...

A new study finds striking metabolic differences between fat cells from obese and normal weight people—but it’s not clear what the findings mean to overall health. Obesity is associated with ...

In humans, specialised cells called adipocytes store body fat in the form of lipid droplets. For many years, biologists thought lipid droplets were “just an inert structure, just a storage site ...