Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells ...

Aspartame has long been marketed as a guilt-free alternative to sugar in popular food products, ranging from zero-calorie ...

The findings, published in Nature Genetics, may potentially lead to future breakthroughs in personalised medicine for obesity ...

The distinct population of endothelial cells that line blood vessels in the insulin-producing "islets" of the human pancreas ...

"We were able to integrate our data with three other published datasets, extensively corroborating our findings and resulting in a much more complete cell atlas," said co-author Dr. Ge Li ...

Unhealthy fat triggers immune response: In metabolically unhealthy obesity, fat cells release immune molecules that cause chronic inflammation, increasing the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

The cell atlas, called Hypomap, developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne and the University of Cambridge, is being made available to the scientific ...

A comprehensive atlas of the human hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates many bodily functions, including temperature, sleep and appetite, has been built using single-cell RNA sequencing and ...

A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people stay healthy, while others do not. Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood ...

Additionally, they discovered gender differences, with a specific type of progenitor cell present only in the visceral fat of women, possibly explaining differences in disease development between men ...

vanderbilt.edu Objective The glands of the stomach body and antral mucosa contain a complex compendium of cell lineages. In lower mammals, the distribution of oxyntic glands and antral glands define ...