Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is the primary site of non-shivering thermogenesis (NST), which protects mammals from hypothermia. NST is significantly increased in response to cold exposure and ...
BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) was found to inhibit the browning of white adipose tissue in response to cold exposure in mice, offering a potential new drug target for a therapeutic strategy to ...
Temperature bias Tumours in lab mice grow faster than normal because of the cool temperatures the animals are kept at, and this could be giving misleading results in cancer drug tests, say US ...
Cold temperatures could inhibit the growth of cancerous cells, according to research conducted in mice and one person with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Exposure to low temperatures is thought to prompt brown ...