In recent years, for instance, studies have indicated that fat is far from the lone culprit in human weight gain, and that carbohydrates play a hefty role. “Mice are a good model for human obesity . .

In experiments, when scientists fed mice a high-fat diet for 15 weeks, those animals that lacked AC3-AT proteins accumulated less fat in their body and were metabolically healthier than the ...

Washington University researchers activated the Hedgehog protein pathway in the fat cells of mice. After eight weeks of eating a high-fat diet, mice that had been engineered with genes to activate ...