Two types of neurons in the hippocampus either store memories for sugar or drive fat cravings, shaping food intake and ...

Similarly, in obesity, macrophages can engulf fatty acids and dying adipocytes with voluminous lipid content. This may be useful early on, but it gradually compromises macrophage function ...

Among them, certain macrophages play a role in clearing deceased cells and upholding tissue balance while others elicit ...

By studying mice and tumour samples from kidney cancer patients, they found that obesity increases the number of macrophages ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON/COPENHAGEN, March 10 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk on Monday revealed weaker-than-expected data from a second late-stage trial of its obesity drug candidate CagriSema, knocking shares and ...