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Promoting brown fat activity could counteract hypertension by reshaping the molecular signals that govern vascular stiffness.

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Sound Waves Can Change Fat Cell Fates

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Brain Cells That Remember Food May Influence Obesity

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Newly Found Fat Cell Uses a Different Approach to Heat the Body  

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How Nutrition Regulates Ovulation

An international team of scientists used sensitive instruments to show that oil from human skin reacts with ozone to generate potent, free radicals. These chemicals can further react with most organic compounds present in the indoor environment to produce dangerous pollutants. 

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How Fat Cells Help Kick Parasites Out of Mice: Study

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Mouse Brains Appear to Eavesdrop on Their Fat

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Protein-Recycling Process Protective Against Arterial Plaques

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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