source: ScienceDaily.com | 14.11.2011

Obese rhesus monkeys lost on average 11 percent of their body weight after four weeks of treatment with an experimental drug that selectively destroys the blood supply of fat tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in Science Translational Medicine.

The next Reprobesity meeting will take place on 2011 November the 9th and 10th in Bologna, Italy. Organized by Dr. Uberto Pagotto

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source: ScienceDaily.com | 05.10.2011

The fat we typically think of as body fat is called white fat. But there's another type -- known as brown fat -- that does more than just store fat. It burns fat. Scientists used to think that brown fat disappeared after infancy, but recent advances in imaging technology led to its rediscovery in adult humans. Because brown fat is so full of blood vessels and mitochondria -- that's what makes it brown -- it's very good at converting calories into energy, a process that malfunctions in obesity.

source: ScienceDaily.com | 23.09.2011

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have identified for the first time two molecular pathways that are critical to activating a type of "good" fat found in the body, a discovery that could play an important role in the fight against obesity and diabetes.

The group of researchers at the Regional Hospital of Malaga and IMABIS Foundation led by Francisco Javier Bermudez has identified the presence of a receptor in pancreatic islets. This finding might, in future, a new therapeutic target for treating type 2 diabetes.