Getting a "fat transplant" turns the bad fat good

There's good fat, and there's bad fat – although we mostly only hear about the latter. Finding ways to decrease levels of bad (white) fat and increase good (brown) fat could help us lose weight and avoid obesity-related illness, and now researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a transplant method, where white fat is removed from the body, cultivated in a lab for a few weeks, then reinserted into the body as brown fat.

.. Continue Reading Getting a "fat transplant" turns the bad fat good

Category: Medical

Tags:

• Brown fat
• Columbia University
• Fat cells
• Obesity
• Transplant

from New Atlas https://ift.tt/2M9rEr3