As many as 40% of Americans are obese, putting them at an increased risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, heart disease and certain cancers, according to the CDC. New research from the ...

The objective of the Tissue Resources Core is to collect, prepare and distribute high-quality human tissue samples (including solid tissues, blood and other biospecimens) to researchers located on the ...

Background: Genetic studies have implicated the NPC1 gene (Niemann Pick type C1) in susceptibility to obesity. Methods: To assess the potential function of NPC1 in obesity, we determined its ...

Scientists have produced the first detailed characterization of the changes that weight loss (WL) causes in human adipose tissue (AT) by analyzing hundreds of thousands of cells from morbidly obese ...