WAT stores energy so you can survive a famine. Your body can store huge amounts of WAT, which is what makes people (literally) look fat. BAT moderates your body chemistry to keep you healthy.

For the first time, researchers have identified a protein that represses the activity of energy-burning brown fat. The ...

Adipose tissue is a central metabolic organ that controls energy homeostasis of the whole body. White adipose tissue (WAT) stores excess energy in the form of triglycerides, whereas brown adipose ...

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Adipose tissue, or fat, is an anatomical term for loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes. Its main role is to store energy in the form of fat, although it also cushions and insulates the body.

WAT and BAT function antagonistically–WAT stores energy and BAT releases energy. The balance between these two cell types changes over an organisms' lifetime. Microscopic view of brown and white fat ...

Tonnisha Mitchell, 43, allegedly wacked Gene Hill, 42, in the head and body with a bat several times in a Lake Charles street, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

When erect, the bats' penises were on average 0.65 inches long. That might sound small, but for an animal that's only 2.44 to 3.15 inches long, it's actually 22% of their body length, the ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (WKRC) – A woman in Louisiana has been charged with second-degree battery and manslaughter after allegedly beating a man and leaving him on a roadway, where he was later struck ...

A single universal equation can closely approximate the frequency of wingbeats and fin strokes made by birds, insects, bats and whales, despite their different body sizes and wing shapes, Jens ...