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Yessi Pratiwi — July 31, 2009 / 11:36 pm
Brown fat is known as a certain tissue in mammals that helps warm the body. It is found in patches along the neck and between the shoulders of newborn mammals, including humans, and in adults of hibernating animals.
Recently, a study that has been conducted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has successfully created an energy burning brown fat in mice. The researchers, led by Bruce Spiegelman, PhD, claim that they can engineer mouse and human cells to produce brown fat, a natural energy-burning type of fat that counteracts obesity.
It has been found from the tests that the brown fat transplants were burning caloric energy at a high rate — energy that otherwise would have been stored as fat in white adipose tissue, makes it as synthetic brown fat precursors as eBat (engineered BAT).
Hopefully, this eBAT will become a solution for treating obesity in human.
Credit : ScienceDaily, Image : pathguy
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