Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion ...

Thus, effective obesity management strategies should focus on inhibiting white adipocyte adipogenesis and promoting brown and beige adipocyte development and lipid catabolism (lipolysis).

Obesity has been seen as a simple problem of willpower, diet, and exercise for decades. But science is now pointing to it being far more complex than a physical sign of our moral failings.

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a "monumental societal failure" to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and almost a third of ...

Dogs that are constantly hungry and prone to being overweight share a common bit of biology with some obesity-prone humans. This is what UK scientists have discovered - identifying a genetic ...

Overweight and obesity rates in adults, children and teens more than doubled over the past three decades, afflicting 2.1 billion adults and 493 million young people with excess weight, researchers ...

Previous research has demonstrated that activin receptor-like kinase 7 (ALK7) signaling suppresses lipolysis, resulting in increased adipocyte size and lipid content. Additionally, predicted loss of ...

The presentation titled, "Targeting Obesity with RNAi-based Therapies," was included in the Oligo-Based Therapeutics: Clinical Advancements session at the RNA Leaders Europe Congress 2025 held ...