obesity, disease & medicine

Paul Cohen of the Rockefeller University describes his study of thousands of people, finding that the energy-burning tissue is tied to a lower risk of for several diseases, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

The most common preexisting conditions among the patients were diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.

A video chronicles the course of disease research and prompts questions about where scientists may focus their studies in the future.

Physical activity, independent of diet, shifts the composition of bacteria in the intestines, spurring researchers to search for species that might provide benefits akin to working out.

The Purdue University nutrition researcher delves into the details of how fat tissue affects tumors.

Developing computational tools to analyze the reams of microbial sequencing data his lab generates, the UC San Diego microbiologist is a pioneer of microbiome research.

Researchers disentangle how adipocytes communicate with prostate tumors in mice.

Activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex was the best correlate of weight loss in a study of people on a restricted-calorie diet.

Inflammation may be a strong contender for the connection between mom’s weight and children’s neurodevelopment, according to lab studies on animals.

Low levels of a biochemical process involved in fat breakdown predicts weight gain and metabolic complications more than a decade later.