Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have discovered a key ...

Research suggests a fat cell's "memory" of past obesity changes how it responds to food, and that may explain why keeping ...

Research suggests a fat cell's "memory" of past obesity changes how it responds to food, and that may explain why keeping weight off is so difficult.

Obesity leads to DNA alterations that affect gene activity and linger after weight loss, a finding that researchers say could ...

If you’ve ever lost weight only to watch the pounds creep back on, you’re not alone. Now, scientists have uncovered a ...

"We’ve found a molecular basis for the yo-yo effect," said Ferdinand von Meyenn, professor of nutrition and metabolic ...

Epigenetic changes from obesity persist after weight loss, altering fat cell function and increasing the risk of weight ...

Research has discovered a genetic basis for the frequent flip flop between dieting and weight gain, amid recent studies ...

A new study published in the journal Nature revealed that fat cells have memory which significantly contributes to obesity.

Even after drastic weight loss, the body’s fat cells carry the ‘memory’ of obesity, research 1 shows — a finding that might help to explain why it can be hard to stay trim after a weight ...

Researchers have found that obesity leaves lasting changes in the epigenome, a set of chemical markers that control how genes ...

They analyzed fat cells from overweight mice and those that had shed their excess weight through dieting. Their investigations revealed that obesity leads to characteristic epigenetic changes in ...