Microscopy image depicting fat cells (or adipocytes) after differentiation. The cells are stained with Oil Red O, which highlights lipid or fat droplets that accumulate with the fat cells.

Lipid droplets play crucial roles beyond fat storage Date: August 14, 2018 Source: University of Rochester Summary: Lipid droplets were long thought of merely as formless blobs of fat. But a new ...

For the first time, researchers have visually monitored, in high resolution, the timing and location of fat storage within the intact cells of fruit flies. The new optical imaging tool from the ...

As the national waistline expands, so do pools of intra-cellular fat known as lipid droplets. Although most of us wish our lipid droplets would vanish, they represent a cellular paradox: on the ...

A new study has unveiled fascinating insights into the complex relationship between milk fat globules and bacteria. The research, published in Food Chemistry, explores how the structural ...

As the national waistline expands, so do pools of intra-cellular fat known as lipid droplets. Although most of us wish our lipid droplets would vanish, they represent a cellular paradox: on the ...

The researchers exposed beta cells to an excess of sugar, fat, or both, followed by RNA sequencing luminescence- and radioimmuno-assays to measure insulin secretion and electron microscopy to ...

Fat-filled lipid droplets, tiny spheres of fat many times smaller than fat cells, are a growing subject of scientific interest. Found inside many different cell types, these lipid particles have ...

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy is a quantitative, label-free imaging method to map fat distribution and accumulation with high spatial resolution and sensitivity at both cellular and ...

A water solution is injected into the body breaking down fat cells, allowing us to absorb them into our blood - and wee them out.

In this article, Dr. Konstantinos Palikaras from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Dr. Nektarios Tavernarakis from the University of Crete explore how tiny fat droplets, known ...