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The colour beige: heating up the fat

In mammals, adipose tissue is a specialized tissue that functions as the major storage site for fat. When glucose supplies are low (for example when an organism is food-deprived), the stored fat can be used to produce energy, so that the organism may be constantly... click to read more

Caterina Da Rè | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

health

beige fat

brown fat

white fat

obesity

thermogenesis

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published on Apr 1, 2016

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