Way cells store fat is uncovered
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US scientists have discovered how fat is stored in the body's cells - promising new treatments for obesity.
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Creating a bank to store a new type of stem cell produced from donors' ordinary skin cells could help reduce time and money for treating patients with regenerative medicine in the future, a Japanese researcher said on Wednesday.
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By Cai, Dawen Verhey, Kristen J; Meyhofer, Edgar  ABSTRACT Understanding dynamic cellular processes requires precise knowledge of the distribution, transport, and interactions of individual molecules in living cells.
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A fundamental mechanism has been discovered that allows embryonic stem cells to divide indefinitely while avoiding the duplication of genetically damaged cells that can lead to cancer.
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NEW YORK  - Measuring blood levels of a chemical transporter for vitamin A may be useful in estimating a person's "intraabdominal fat," a type of fat inside the abdomen that it not visible, but still adversely affects health, new research shows.
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How to prevent a sticky gunk from clogging up, and probably killing, brain cells is the newest focus in the fight against Alzheimerâs disease.
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Helping switch on an energy-burning  type of fat called brown fat may offer a way to prevent  obesity, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Broad ribbons of light help sort and manipulate individual cells.
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Scientists say a blood test could accurately measure the amount of potentially dangerous fat coating the body's organs.
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Dr. Robert Ersek, a 66-year-old plastic surgeon, invited reporters to his Texas operating room recently and, in front of their cameras, proceeded to liposuction himself. After numbing the skin near his navel, he slipped in a hollow tube about a quarter-inch wide and moved it back and forth until it had sucked out about half a pound of fat. Ersek's office throws away tons of liposuctioned fat every year. But he shipped his own to a California company for processing and long-term storage of some of the cells from that fat.
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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In most of western Europe, easily more than half the adults are overweight, and in the United States two-thirds are fat. Why, then, are some able to stay thin in such an environment? The answer is complex and not the same for everyone.
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Scientists discover what could be cardiac master cells capable of becoming different tissues in the heart.
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NEW YORK  - A daily serving of soy may help postmenopausal women avoid gaining fat around the middle, preliminary research suggests.
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Stem cells from fat tissue have been used to help grow bone to repair the damaged skull of a 7-year-old German girl, according to a report in a German medical journal.
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A single gene can keep in check the tendency to pile on fat, scientists show.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have zeroed in on a handful of tiny ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that seem to control whether or not breast cancer travels to the lung and bone.