But recent research has revealed that adults still have small amounts of functional brown fat tissue, particularly around the neck and shoulder regions. Researchers have also discovered a third ty ...
Once thought only to be present in infants, who lack the musculature to shiver, brown fat turned up along the spines and necks of adults on scans intended to catch cancer metastasis. Brown fat's ...
These, in turn, create heat and burn calories. Babies have this type of fat to keep them warm, while adults have less brown fat. They only have small deposits around areas like the neck and shoulders.
Newly reported research in human tissue and in mice has uncovered a mechanism by which brown fat (brown adipose tissue; BAT) is converted into heat, and identified a control protein that may ...